This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from
Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006,
2007).
In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published
The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain.
The book is widely considered a seminal work in the subject of
evolutionary cognition. However, Deacons book was the first step
further steps have had to be taken. The proposed anthology is such
an important associate.
The contributions are written by a wide variety of scholars each
with a unique view on evolutionary cognition and the questions
raised by Terrence Deacon - emergence in evolution, the origin of
language, the semiotic 'missing link', Peirce's semiotics in
evolution and biology, biosemiotics, evolutionary cognition,
Baldwinian evolution, the neuroscience of linguistic capacities as
well as phylogeny of the homo species, primatology, embodied
cognition and knowledge types. "
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