Lucy To Language
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From Lucy To Language
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Author : Donald C. Johanson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
From Lucy To Language written by Donald C. Johanson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Australopithecines categories.
From Lucy To Language
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Author : Donald Johanson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-10-17
From Lucy To Language written by Donald Johanson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-17 with Science categories.
"Between 6 and 7 million years ago, Earth experienced a global cooling period, which resulted in a drier climate in many areas of the world. In East Africa, what had been heavily wooded forest began to change over to savannah grasslands. Animals that had adapted to the dense forests encountered new challenges and had to adapt to more open environments among them one or more populations of relatively large apes." "Different animals adopted various strategies to survive in this new environment. At least one population of apes did what no other animal had done before (or since, which was to stand up and routinely move about on two legs." "This revolution in behavior will probably never by fully explained. Compared to walking on four legs, bipedal locomotion is slow, clumsy, energetically inefficient, and fraught with opportunities for injury. Yet, being upright endowed these apes with certain advantages, such as enhanced visibility and better thermoregulation. Certainly the ability to habitually walk on two legs freed their hands to carry food and manipulate stones and other objects in the environment, an ability that looms large in the evolution of humans. Whatever the reasons, this unparalleled evolutionary innovation conveyed significant adaptive advantage to these creatures. And with this advantage, succeed these bipedal apes certainly did." "By 2 million years ago they began to surge out of Africa, north into Europe and east into the Near East, China, and beyond into the Indonesian archipelago." "As the archaeological evidence of their technologically advanced tools and luminous cave paintings demonstrates, they brought with them the beginnings of modern human culture - language, art, religion, and science." "Today we are the sole and last representative of that group of apes who, in standing up on two legs for the first time, began the amazing evolutionary journey described in From Lucy to Language. The deepest message of this story, and thus of this book, is that we, like all other creatures large and small, are of this Earth. Yes, we are the most intelligent and most cooperative of all animals that have ever existed but also the most dangerous. We must realize that we are not the final product of evolution on Earth. Our species, like all others, is an evolutionary work in progress. Earth is our birthplace and our home. We must use the great powers with which evolution has endowed us to respect and nurture Earth, for despite our technological hubris, life on Earth will go on with or without us."--BOOK JACKET.
Lucy To Language
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Author : R. I. M. Dunbar
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014-02
Lucy To Language written by R. I. M. Dunbar and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02 with Medical categories.
This volume readdresses the past contribution from archaeology towards the study of evolutionary issues, and ties evolutionary psychology into the extensive historical data from the past, allowing us to escape the confined timeframe of the comparatively recent human mind and explore the question of just what it is that makes us so different.
From Lucy To Language
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Author : Donald E. Johanson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1996
From Lucy To Language written by Donald E. Johanson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Australopithecines. categories.
Photographs of significant hominid fossils and artifacts illustrate an assessment of the visual proof of human evolution and the meaning of clues left by the forebears of the human race. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
Language Diversity And Thought
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Author : John A. Lucy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-07-02
Language Diversity And Thought written by John A. Lucy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An examination of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis on the relationship between grammar and thought.
Wor L D
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Author : Lucy Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984-04-04
Wor L D written by Lucy Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-04-04 with categories.
Languages Are Good For Us
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Author : Sophie Hardach
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Languages Are Good For Us written by Sophie Hardach and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is a book about languages and the people who love them. Sophie Hardach is here to guide us through the strange and wonderful ways that humans have used languages throughout history. She takes us from the earliest Mesopotamian clay tablets and the 'book cemeteries' of medieval synagogues to the first sounds a child hears in their mother's womb and their incredible capacity for language learning. Along the way, Hardach explores the role of trade in transmitting words across cultures and untangles riddles of hieroglyphics, cuneiform and the ancient scripts of Crete and Cyprus. This is a book about languages, the people who love them and the linguistic threads that connect us all. 'Impeccably researched and engagingly presented... Sophie Hardach tells wonderful stories about words that have travelled vast distances in space and time to make English what it is' David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Language Of The Sierra Miwok
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Author : Lucy Shepard Freeland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
Language Of The Sierra Miwok written by Lucy Shepard Freeland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Miwok languages categories.
9 Wonder Words
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Author : Lucy Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-03
9 Wonder Words written by Lucy Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03 with categories.
Presents 'words of wellness' from ancient and modern languages throughout the world. These are special words not found in English, and which help you find hope in the future, calm in the chaotic present, self-confidence, and trust in others. Words for a way of thinking that leads to happier, healthier, lives, and sustainable societies. Each word is presented in a dictionary format that explains its meaning, origin, and etymological root, along with the story of how the author discovered it. Intended as the first in a series, this book draws on personal stories from Sierra Leone, Timor Leste, Haiti, Venezuela, Indonesia, Nepal, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Palestine, Japan, the Highlands of Scotland, Cowboy Church in West Texas, and San Quentin Prison in California, as well as studies in the fields of neurolinguistics, psychology, evolutionary biology, medicine, religion, and international development.
Reflexive Language
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Author : John A. Lucy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-03-04
Reflexive Language written by John A. Lucy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
These innovative essays represent a critique of those researchers in the humanities and social sciences who fail to take language seriously.