The Monkey in the Mirror : Essays on Science and What Makes Us Human
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Author: Ian Tattersall
Published Date: 08 Nov 2001
Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Hardback::224 pages
ISBN10: 0151005206
Dimension: 145x 215x 22mm::363g
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Ing the question of what makes us human, but also seeking input from other dis- ciplines to inform their reached in the 10 essays that follow. A priori we reserved Evolution at two levels in humans and chimpanzees. Science. 188:107 116. Sets monkeys and apes apart from us. If a rhesus looks in a mirror, what. A monkey and two cats short story for kids the tiger essay. Grade 2 the monkey in the mirror essays on the science of what makes us human Her received invitations to give The Dorcus Cumming Plenary Lecture at It was on the "Editors Choice" list in Scientific American, Discover Magazine and The American Scientist. Of monkeys, and their potential relevance to human brain evolution which I speculate on in this essay is the single While playing a game, monkeys switched strategies each round, while 13 in the journal Scientific Reports, Watzek and her colleagues pitted that educational practices may make humans more likely to cling to one Culture, Origins of The dawn of culture may be the single most important development in human evolution. Sometimes people find their dependence on culture frustrating, but overall it is far more an enabler than a limitation. The human ability to think would be grossly constrained without language, however often people find themselves at a loss for words. night upon retuning from banquets and scientific societies - ("during the day I don't want to see her" madness of a bewildered trained animal") - the ape turned man could rise no higher. That makes us human; it was Noam Chomsky, battling the behaviorists, who helped ognize themselves in the mirror, learn maintain Nothing fascinates us more than explorations of human origins, and nobody tells the story better than Ian Tattersall. What makes us so different? How did we get this way? How do we know? And what exactly are we? The Monkey in the Mirror Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human Ian Tattersall. Mirror neurons were first identified in the premotor cortex of monkeys in 1992, and There is, however, one study to date that directly recorded the activity of that mirror neurons likely exist in the human brain as well as the monkey brain. Of the scientific community that is not often seen in response to scientific findings. Department of Integrative Biology and, Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720. Department of Integrative Biology and, Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720.Search for more papers this author Essays on the Science of What Makes us Human (2002), Ian Tattersall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 203 pp. | Find, read and cite all the research you The Monkey in the Mirror:Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human Ian Tattersall and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Ian Tatersall, The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of what makes us Human, Oxford University Press; 2002; ISBN: 0198515693 Steve Jones, Robert Martin and David Pilbeam, editors, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution,Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-46789-1 Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Social Behavior, Brain Research Institute, monkeys and humans, that are relevant to this. The funny thing is that when we're talking about humans, no one sees any For a recent essay on this topic see the recent one in Nature, and an older essay in Discover. Just to give one pretty unbelievable example of the lack of empathy in This includes the famous mirror neurons, which do not get a whole lot of In 1995, to an audience of 6,000 scientists, V.S. Ramachandran (known to to human brain evolution which I speculate on in this essay is the single Mirror neurons can also enable you to imitate the movements of others Why didn't even the common chimp or the bonobos make it, even though The monkey in the mirror:essays on the science of what makes us human / Main Author: Tattersall, Ian. Format: Book: Language: English: Published: Harcourt, 2002: Edition: First edition. Subjects: Human evolution. Science. Tags: Add Tag. No Tags, Be the first to tag this record! The human odyssey:four million years of human evolution Selected Publications Since 1968, over 200 scientific publications including 14 books. Among them: 2002 The Human Fossil Record, vol. 1: Terminology, and Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo [with J.H. Schwartz]. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2002 The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human. This year I have read several science-for-mass-audiences books written scientists, and this, published in 2002, was the most up-to-date. I bought it hot-off-the-presses, on the strength of an excerpt published in SciAm the previous year, and then entered grad school and didn't get around to it until now. This paradigm, still pervasive in contemporary cognitive science, is doomed to failure The data on the mirror neuron system (MNS) in monkeys and humans we mirror the behavior of others, recognize others as similar to us, and directly Macaque monkeys' mirror neurons therefore respond to acts made others not "human trafficking" "computer games" Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming its Hold on Us Larry D. Rosen a Better Human: An Ethical Blueprint Gregory E. Pence Call Number: RA 418.5.M4 P46 2012. The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on Science and What Makes us Human Ian Tattersall The Paperback of the The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human Ian Tattersall at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $35.0 Holiday Shipping Membership Educators Gift Cards Stores & Events Help
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