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EBOOK How To Think Like a Neandertal
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199912339
EAN: 8C69A2E7EB
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Stron: 224
Data wydania: 2011
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There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring        Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a        Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours?In How to Think        Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge        team up to provide a brilliant account of the mental life of Neandertals, drawing on        the most recent fossil and archaeological remains. Indeed, some Neandertal remains        are not fossilized, allowing scientists to recover samples of their genes--one        specimen had the gene for red hair and, more provocatively, all had a gene called        FOXP2, which is thought to be related to speech. Given the differences between their        faces and ours, their voices probably sounded a bit different, and the range of        consonants and vowels they could generate might have been different. But they could        talk, and they had a large (perhaps huge) vocabulary--words for places, routes,        techniques, individuals, and emotions. Extensive archaeological remains of stone        tools and living sites (and, yes, they did often live in caves) indicate that        Neandertals relied on complex technical procedures and spent most of their lives in        small family groups. The authors sift the evidence that Neandertals had a symbolic        culture--looking at their treatment of corpses, the use of fire, and possible body        coloring--and conclude that they probably did not have a sense of the supernatural.          The book explores the brutal nature of their lives, especially in northwestern        Europe, where men and women with spears hunted together for mammoths and wooly        rhinoceroses. They were pain tolerant, very likely taciturn, and not easy to        excite.Wynn and Coolidge offer here an eye-opening portrait of Neandertals, painting        a remarkable picture of these long-vanished people and providing insight, as they go        along, into our own minds and culture.

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