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• catalog abstract "This book is about what science frequently dodges or even denies: subjective life as experienced by animals as well as humans. Mixing what is known from science with some novel ideas, science writer William Libaw provides a provocative thesis on the origins and evolution of consciousness. Among the ideas presented are the following: for the earliest animals that had it, subjective experience itself had Darwinian adaptiveness in a rapidly changing environment; the use of gestures and deception among apes and some birds suggests conscious concepts in their mental activity; spoken language came first from the mouths of a group of children who inherited the previously unused genetic language capability; and human males have retained the animal rutting instinct and amplified it with conceptual prurience. As the subjective world of any other creature cannot be observed directly, this book plays detective to deduce from behavior some of the concepts that play a key role in ape and human minds.--From publisher description.".
• catalog contributor b12200493.
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-370) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Minds, like everything else, were made in slow steps -- pt. 1: Animals lower than apes and monkeys. Consciousness, the great riddle-mystery-enigma ; Fish, four-limbed beasts, and birds ; Cats and dogs, an odd couple of domesticated creatures -- pt. 2: Living apes, somewhat like our ape forbears. Family life without father : growing up chimpish ; Chimps are no chumps : mentality with room for new concepts ; Ape love-life : near the borders of sexual Eden ; Ape gesture and utterance : steps on the information highway -- pt. 3: Our upright predecessors, the early hominids. The upright apes, or australopithecines ; Our predecessor species, Homo erectus -- pt. 4: Earlier creatures of our own kind. The transition from erectines to sapiens ; Early language, magic, and religion : in and out of this world ; The last big biological step : complete language ; Sapiens societies develop the quest for more -- pt. 5: Miracles for modern humans : children, love, death. Parents and children ; Bush league sexuality and, at times, major league love ; Living, lifeless, dead : always trying concepts.".
• catalog description "This book is about what science frequently dodges or even denies: subjective life as experienced by animals as well as humans. Mixing what is known from science with some novel ideas, science writer William Libaw provides a provocative thesis on the origins and evolution of consciousness. Among the ideas presented are the following: for the earliest animals that had it, subjective experience itself had Darwinian adaptiveness in a rapidly changing environment; the use of gestures and deception among apes and some birds suggests conscious concepts in their mental activity; spoken language came first from the mouths of a group of children who inherited the previously unused genetic language capability; and human males have retained the animal rutting instinct and amplified it with conceptual prurience. As the subjective world of any other creature cannot be observed directly, this book plays detective to deduce from behavior some of the concepts that play a key role in ape and human minds.--From publisher description.".
• catalog extent "377 p. cm.".
• catalog hasFormat "How we got to be human.".
• catalog identifier "1573928135 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "How we got to be human.".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books,".
• catalog relation "How we got to be human.".
• catalog subject "156/.3 21".
• catalog subject "2000 N-553".
• catalog subject "Biological Evolution.".
• catalog subject "Cognition.".
• catalog subject "GN 281 L694h 2000".
• catalog subject "GN280.7 .L5 2000".
• catalog subject "Hominidae.".
• catalog subject "Human beings Animal nature.".
• catalog subject "Psychology, Comparative.".
• catalog subject "Subjectivity.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Minds, like everything else, were made in slow steps -- pt. 1: Animals lower than apes and monkeys. Consciousness, the great riddle-mystery-enigma ; Fish, four-limbed beasts, and birds ; Cats and dogs, an odd couple of domesticated creatures -- pt. 2: Living apes, somewhat like our ape forbears. Family life without father : growing up chimpish ; Chimps are no chumps : mentality with room for new concepts ; Ape love-life : near the borders of sexual Eden ; Ape gesture and utterance : steps on the information highway -- pt. 3: Our upright predecessors, the early hominids. The upright apes, or australopithecines ; Our predecessor species, Homo erectus -- pt. 4: Earlier creatures of our own kind. The transition from erectines to sapiens ; Early language, magic, and religion : in and out of this world ; The last big biological step : complete language ; Sapiens societies develop the quest for more -- pt. 5: Miracles for modern humans : children, love, death. Parents and children ; Bush league sexuality and, at times, major league love ; Living, lifeless, dead : always trying concepts.".
• catalog title "How we got to be human : subjective minds with objective bodies / William H. Libaw.".
• catalog type "text".