[Library ebook] The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
✿ Stanley I. Greenspan, Stuart Shanker ✿
| #309266 in Books | Greenspan, Stanley I./ Shanker, Stuart G. | 2006-02-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.28 x6.00l,1.70 | File Name: 0306814498 | 512 pages
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A tough read...|By Pommy|There seem to be two distinct writing styles in this book. One is overly formal, using eclectic jargon that nobody but a scholar in this field would understand; one is laid back and frivolous - almost too conversational.
Although the book has some good ideas and suggests useful paradigms, it is very difficult to read. However, the friend who|From Publishers Weekly|Noam Chomsky is the best-known advocate of the view that language skills are hardwired into our brains, and Steven Pinker made this argument in The Blank Slate. Authors Greenspan, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, and Shank
In the childhood of every human being and at the dawn of human history there is an amazing and, until now, unexplained leap from simple genetically programmed behavior to language, symbolic thinking, and culture. In The First Idea, Stanley Greenspan and Stuart Shanker explore this missing link and offer brilliant new insights into two longstanding questions: how human beings first create symbols and how these abilities evolved and were transmitted across gen... [PDF.zt11] The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans Rating: 4.98 (663 Votes)
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