In:Homo Symbolicus: The dawn of language, imagination and spirituality
Edited by Christopher S. Henshilwood and Francesco d'Errico
[Not in series 168] 2011
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 16 November 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.168.toc
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Table of contents
Editors’ introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Pan symbolicus: A cultural primatologist’s viewpoint
Chapter 2. The evolution and the rise of human language: Carry the baby
Chapter 3. The origin of symbolically mediated behaviour: From antagonistic scenarios to a unified research strategy
Chapter 4. Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture
Chapter 5. Complex cognition required for compound adhesive manufacture in the Middle Stone Age implies symbolic capacity
Chapter 6. The emergence of language, art and symbolic thinking: A Neandertal test of competing hypotheses
Chapter 7. The human major transition in relation to symbolic behaviour, including language, imagination, and spirituality
Chapter 8. The living as symbols, the dead as symbols: problematising the scale and pace of hominin symbolic evolution
Chapter 9. Biology and mechanisms related to the dawn of language
Chapter 10. The other middle-range theories: Mapping behaviour and the evolution of the mind
Chapter 11. Metarepresentation, Homo religiosus, and Homo symbolicus
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