Details

Subject(s)

• Signs and symbols—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Communication—History—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Gontier, Nathalie [Browse]
• Lock, Andrew [Browse]
• Sinha, Chris [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

• Oxford library of psychology. [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Summary note

The biological and neurological capacity to symbolize, and the products of behavioral, cognitive, sociocultural, linguistic, and technological uses of symbols (symbolism), are fundamental to every aspect of human life. 'The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution' explores the origins of our characteristically human abilities - our ability to speak, create images, play music, and read and write. The text investigates how symbolization evolved in human evolution and how symbolism is expressed across the various areas of human life. The field is intrinsically interdisciplinary - considering findings from fossil studies, scientific research from primatology, developmental psychology, and of course linguistics.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 16, 2023).

Contents

• Gesture is an intrinsic part of modern-day human communication and may always have been so / Susan Goldin-Meadow
• The Symbolic Revolution: A sexual conflict model / Camilla Power, Ian Watts, Chris Knight
• Behavioral modernity, evolutionary synergies and the symbolic species / Ana Majkić
• Animal signals and symbolism / Ulrike Griebel, D. Kimbrough Oller
• Kanzi or can't he? Animal language projects / Heidi Lyn
• The Evolution of Language and Speech: What We Know from Genetics / Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Dan Dediu
• The Narrative Origins of Language / Francesco Ferretti
• The evolution of writing systems: An Introduction / Alex de Voogt.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of human symbolic evolution
• Human symbolic evolution

ISBN

• 9780192543516
• 0192543512
• 9780192543509
• 0192543504
• 9780191851759
• 0191851752

OCLC

1403387575

Doi

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198813781.001.0001

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