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Author Greenspan, Stanley I.

Title The first idea : how symbols, language, and intelligence evolved from our early primate ancestors to modern humans / Stanley I. Greenspan, Stuart G. Shanker.

Publication Info. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2004.

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  153.7 GREENSPAN    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  153.7 GREENSPAN    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  153.7 G815F    Check Shelf
Edition First Da Capo Press edition.
Description viii, 504 pages ; 24 cm
Note "A Merloyd Lawrence book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-488) and index.
Contents Origin of symbols -- Intellectual growth and transformations of emotions during the course of life -- The early stages of emotional regulation, engagement, and signaling : nonhuman primates and the earliest hominids -- Problem-solving collaborations : chimpanzees and early humans -- Symbols, words, and ideas : Archaic H. sapiens and early moderns -- Representation and the beginning of logic Homo sapiens sapiens -- The engine of evolution -- The origins of language -- The role of emotions in language development -- Emotions and the development of intelligence -- How emotional signaling links emotion and cognition and the brain's subsymbolic and symbolic cortical systems : implications for neuroscience and Piaget's cognitive psychology -- Emotional development derailed : pathways to and from autism -- The developmental levels of groups, societies, and cultures / with Elizabeth Greenspan -- A new history of history -- Towards a psychology of global interdependency.
Subject Evolutionary psychology.
Cognition.
Human Development.
Anthropology, Cultural.
Evolution.
Hominidae -- psychology.
Intelligence.
Language.
Added Author Shanker, Stuart.
ISBN 0738206806 alkaline paper
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