TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corballis,Michael C.
TI  - The recursive mind: the origins of human language, thought, and civilization 
SN  - 9780691145471
AV  - BF701 .C665 2011
U1  - 155.7 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Evolutionary psychology
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
KW  - Thought and thinking
KW  - Cognition and culture
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Brain
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Language
KW  - Thinking
KW  - Biological Evolution
KW  - fast
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Kognition
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - Rekursion
KW  - Sprachursprung
KW  - Kognitive Entwicklung
KW  - Denken
KW  - Subjektive Theorie
KW  - Zivilisation
KW  - Hominisation
KW  - idszbzes
KW  - Language evolution
KW  - Evolutionspsykologi
KW  - sao
KW  - Språkets uppkomst
KW  - Hjärna
KW  - evolution
KW  - Evrimsel psikoloji
KW  - Dil ve diller
KW  - Köken
KW  - Düşünce ve düşünme
KW  - Biliş ve kültür
KW  - İnsan evrimi
KW  - Beyin
KW  - Evrim
N1  - New Zealand author; Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-279) and index; What is recursion? -- Part 1. Language: Language and recursion -- Do animals have language? -- How language evolved from hand to mouth -- Part 2. Mental time travel: Reliving the past -- About time -- The grammar of time -- Part 3. Theory of mind: Mind reading -- Language and mind -- Part 4. Human evolution: The recurring question -- Becoming human -- Becoming modern -- Final thoughts
N2  - The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. "I think, therefore I am," is an example of recursive thought, because the thinker has inserted himself into his thought. Recursion enables us to conceive of our own minds and the minds of others. It also gives us the power of mental "time travel"--The ability to insert past experiences, or imagined future ones, into present consciousness. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, animal behavior, anthropology, and archaeology, Corballis demonstrates how these recursive structures led to the emergence of language and speech, which ultimately enabled us to share our thoughts, plan with others, and reshape our environment to better reflect our creative imaginations. He shows how the recursive mind was critical to survival in the harsh conditions of the Pleistocene epoch, and how it evolved to foster social cohesion. He traces how language itself adapted to recursive thinking, first through manual gestures, then later, with the emergence of Homo sapiens, vocally. Toolmaking and manufacture arose, and the application of recursive principles to these activities in turn led to the complexities of human civilization, the extinction of fellow large-brained hominins like the Neandertals, and our species' supremacy over the physical world. - Publisher's Description
ER  -