On the Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry Into the Evolution of Human Affect

by Jonathan H. Turner

Book Overview

Language and culture are often seen as unique characteristics of human beings. In this book the author argues that our ability to use a wide array of emotions evolved long before spoken language and, in fact, constituted a preadaptation for the speech and culture that developed among later hominids. Long before humans could speak with words, they communicated through body language their emotional dispositions; and it is the neurological wiring of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804737207
• ISBN13: 9780804737203
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"