Early Evolution of Human Memory: Great Apes, Tool-Making, and Cognition

by Hector M Manrique and Michael J. Walker

Provides a critique of received wisdom through a multidisciplinary consideration of empirical experiments, neuroscientific findings, and archeological records
Highlights the part played by the development of memory in the evolution of tool-making and tool-use by early humans, which it contrasts with the situation in great apes
Addresses the matter with critical analysis rather than comfortable self-fulfilling accommodative argument

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319877968
• ISBN13: 9783319877969
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 150 Pages