A brief history of the mind : from apes to intellect and beyond / William H. Calvin.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Calvin, William H., 1939-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:	Brain > Evolution. Cognitive neuroscience. Evolutionary psychology. Human evolution.

Table of Contents:

When chimpanzees think : the way we were 7 million years ago?
Upright posture but ape-sized brains : in the woodland between forest and savanna
Triple startups about 2.5 million years ago : flickering climate, toolmaking, and bigger brains
Homo erectus ate well : adding more meat to the diet fueled the first Out of Africa
Second brain boom : what kicked in, about 750,000 years ago?
Neanderthals and our pre-sapiens ancestors : two stage toolmaking and what it says about thought
Homo sapiens without the modern mind : the big brain but not much to show for it
Structured thought finally appears : the curb-cut principle and emerging higher intellectual function
From Africa to everywhere : was the still-full-of-bugs prototype what spread around the world?
How creativity manages the mixups : higher intellectual function and the search for coherence
Civilizing ourselves : from planting to writing to mind medicine
What's sudden about the mind's Big Bang? : the moderns somehow got their act together
Imagining the house of cards : inventing new levels of organization on the fly
Future of the augmented mind : a combustible mixture of ignorance and power?
Afterword.

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