The Symbolic Mind: Apes, Symbols, and the Evolution of Language
Janni Pedersen
Broschiertes Buch

The Symbolic Mind: Apes, Symbols, and the Evolution of Language

A Study of Bonobos and What They May Teach US About Language, Thought, and Evolution

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Language presents a specifically problematic but nonetheless central issue for accounts of human evolution. It does not fossilize and there is no agreement on what a precursor would look like. One main issue is the difficulty of studying how symbolic language affects cognition, given that all healthy humans develop language. However, one avenue is ape language research. Cognitive experiments with symbolically competent bonobos, compared with bonobos without competency in human symbolic communication, show that symbols do affect the primate brain. These results provide empirical support for soc...