How Homo Became Sapiens: On the Evolution of Thinking

By Peter Gärdenfors

Book Overview

Our ability to 'think' is really one of our most puzzling characteristics. In this compelling new work, Peter Gardenfors embarks on an evolutionary detective story to try and solve one of the big mysteries surrounding human existence--how the modern human way of thinking came to be. Immensely readable and humorous, this book will be valuable for students in psychology and biology, and enjoyable for the general reader of popular science.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198528507
• ISBN13: 9780198528500
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.2" x 0.9" x 9.3"