PDF-(BOOK)-The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science

Here is an exhilarating intellectual performance in the tradition of Roger Penroses The Emperors New Mind and Steven Pinkers The Language Instinct On the way to showing how the world of our ancient ancestors shaped our modern modular mind Steven Mithen shares one provocative insight after another as he answers a series of fascinating questionsWere our brains hardwired in the Pleistocene Era by the needs of huntergatherersnbspWhen did religious beliefs first emergeWhy were the first paintings made by humankind so technically accomplished and expressiveWhat can the sexual habits of chimpanzees tell us about the prehistory of the modern mindThis is the first archaeological account to support the new modular concept of the mind The concept promulgated by cognitive and evolutionary psychologists views the mind as a collection of specialized intelligences or cognitive domains somewhat like a Swiss army knife with its specialized blades and tools Arguing that only archaeology can answer many of the key questions raised by the new concept Mithen delineates a threephase sequence for the minds evolution over six million yearsfrom early Homo in Africa to the iceage Neanderthals to our modern modular minds The Prehistory of the Mind is an intriguing and challenging explanation of what it means to be human a bold new theory about the origins and nature of the mind. 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On the way to showing how the world of our ancient ancestors shaped our modern modular mind, Steven Mithen shares one provocative insight after another as he answers a series of fascinating questions:Were our brains hard-wired in the Pleistocene Era by the needs of hunter-gatherers? When did religious beliefs first emerge?Why were the first paintings made by humankind so technically accomplished and expressive?What can the sexual habits of chimpanzees tell us about the prehistory of the modern mind?This is the first archaeological account to support the new modular concept of the mind. The concept, promulgated by cognitive and evolutionary psychologists, views the mind as a collection of specialized intelligences or cognitive domains, somewhat like a Swiss army knife with its specialized blades and tools. 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