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Winner of the NAGC Celebrating Gifts and Talents 2007 "Most
Important Book" Gold Award Gifted Children is a lively and
informative exploration of the mystery of the gifted mind and the
social and emotional needs of gifted children and their families.
The authors give an insight into what is 'normal' for gifted
children, acknowledge the difficulties they experience, and offer
pointers for parents on how to support them at home, in the
interaction with siblings and other family members, and at school.
The authors identify self-acceptance and communication with others
as key skills for gifted children, whose exceptional abilities in
fields ranging from music and maths to linguistics and art are
often complicated by poor social skills, dyslexia or other
difficulties. This excellent book, written by counsellors who are
also parents with first- hand knowledge of living and working with
gifted children, is an accessible and positive guide full of
constructive advice and encouragement for other parents. It
includes practical information such as useful contact details, as
well as opportunities for reflection.
In this book, Kate Distin proposes a theory of cultural evolution
and shows how it can help us to understand the origin and
development of human culture. Distin introduces the concept that
humans share information not only in natural languages, which are
spoken or signed, but also in artefactual languages like writing
and musical notation, which use media that are made by humans.
Languages enable humans to receive and transmit variations in
cultural information and resources. In this way, they provide the
mechanism for cultural evolution. The human capacity for
metarepresentation - thinking about how we think - accelerates
cultural evolution, because it frees cultural information from the
conceptual limitations of each individual language. Distin shows
how the concept of cultural evolution outlined in this book can
help us to understand the complexity and diversity of human
culture, relating her theory to a range of subjects including
economics, linguistics, and developmental biology.
Culture is a unique and fascinating aspect of the human species.
How did it emerge and how did it develop? Richard Dawkins has
suggested that culture evolves through meme - that is, cultural
replicators subject to variation and selection in just the same
ways that genes are in the biological world. In this sense human
culture is the product of a mindless evolutionary algorithm. Does
this imply, as some have argued, that we are meme machines and that
the conscious self is an illusion? Kate Distin's highly readable
and accessible book presents for the first time a fully developed
and workable concept of cultural DNA. She argues that culture
develops both through memetic evolution and human creativity, and
that mimetic evolution is perfectly compatible with the view of
humans as conscious and intelligent. This book should find a wide
readership amongst philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and
will also interest many non-academic readers.
In this book, Kate Distin proposes a theory of cultural evolution
and shows how it can help us to understand the origin and
development of human culture. Distin introduces the concept that
humans share information not only in natural languages, which are
spoken or signed, but also in artefactual languages like writing
and musical notation, which use media that are made by humans.
Languages enable humans to receive and transmit variations in
cultural information and resources. In this way, they provide the
mechanism for cultural evolution. The human capacity for
metarepresentation - thinking about how we think - accelerates
cultural evolution, because it frees cultural information from the
conceptual limitations of each individual language. Distin shows
how the concept of cultural evolution outlined in this book can
help us to understand the complexity and diversity of human
culture, relating her theory to a range of subjects including
economics, linguistics, and developmental biology.
Culture is a unique and fascinating aspect of the human species.
How did it emerge and how did it develop? Richard Dawkins has
suggested that culture evolves through meme - that is, cultural
replicators subject to variation and selection in just the same
ways that genes are in the biological world. In this sense human
culture is the product of a mindless evolutionary algorithm. Does
this imply, as some have argued, that we are meme machines and that
the conscious self is an illusion? Kate Distin's highly readable
and accessible book presents for the first time a fully developed
and workable concept of cultural DNA. She argues that culture
develops both through memetic evolution and human creativity, and
that mimetic evolution is perfectly compatible with the view of
humans as conscious and intelligent. This book should find a wide
readership amongst philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and
will also interest many non-academic readers.
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