A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness
- ISBN-10
- 0393049507
- ISBN-13
- 9780393049503
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 371
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Merlin Donald
Description
Presenting the cultural and neuronal forces that power our distinctively human modes of awareness, the author proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product of interweaving a super-complex form of matter (the brain) with an invisible symbolic web (culture) to form a cognitive network.
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