- Prologue
- 1. The Need for a Theory of Cognitive Evolution
- Mental Architecture as an Emergent Phenomenon
- Culture as Evidence for Cognitive Structure
- The Organization of This Book
- 2. Darwin’s Thesis
- Continuity and Discontinuity
- Pre-Darwinian Theories
- Darwin on Animal Intelligence
- Darwin’s Thesis on Language Origins
- Conclusion: A Multidisciplinary Puzzle
- 3. Wernicke’s Machine
- Modular and Unitary Models of Language
- Neuropsychological Aspects of Evolution
- The Case of Brother John
- The Brain without Language
- Conclusion: Wernicke’s Machine in Evolution
- 4. The Chronology of Anatomical and Cultural Change<
- Markers in the Chronology of Change
- Bipedalism: The Australopithecines
- Encephalization: The Hominids
- Speech: A Recent Innovation
- Conclusion: The Question of Cognitive Stages
- 5. Primitive Cognition: Episodic Culture
- Ape Skill: An Overview
- Episodic Culture: A Definition
- Event Perception in Apes
- Culture and Evolution
- Conclusion: The Episodic Mind
- 6. First Transition: From Episodic to Mimetic Culture
- Mimetic Culture: The Missing Link
- Human Cognition without Language
- Mimetic Skill
- Social Consequences of Mimetic Representation
- Modalities of Mimetic Expression
- Neuroanatomical Considerations
- Conclusion: Mimetic Culture as a Survival Strategy
- 7. Second Transition: From Mimetic to Mythic Culture
- Language and the Rise of Human Culture
- Symbolic Invention
- The Speech Adaptation
- What Is Localized?
- Conclusion: Mythic Culture and the Uses of Language
- 8. Third Transition: External Symbolic Storage and Theoretic Culture
- From Mythic to Theoretic Governance
- Visuographic Invention
- External Memory Devices: A Hardware Change
- The Emergence of Theoretic Culture
- Conclusion: The Hybrid Modern Mind
- 9. Consciousness and Indeterminacy
- Transcending the Episodic Model of Mind
- Localization after the Third Transition
- Conclusion: Exuberant Materialism
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Origins of the Modern Mind
Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition
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Publication Date: 03/15/1993
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