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Author: John Wylie Publisher: ISBN: 9780578601670 Category : Languages : en Pages : 150
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This book-really an essay-is the culmination of forty-five years of thinking as a psychiatrist about the relationship between severe mental illnesses and human evolution. I realized that the evolution of upright posture, large molar teeth, opposable thumbs, and large brains were all cumulative responses to a decisive shift in what MOTIVATED early humans compared to apes. I describe in vivid detail how the inner experience of major depression, panic disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder can be interpreted as emotional fossils that illustrate the ape-hominid evolutionary transformation in the mind. This understanding of how our motivations evolved not only allows you to make sense of hominid fossil finds, now with DNA, but offers a simple empathetic understanding of how self-awareness and language work.Although short and explicitly written to be accessible, this essay offers a post-Darwinian world view that is fundamentally optimistic and progressive.
Author: John Wylie Publisher: ISBN: 9780578601670 Category : Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
This book-really an essay-is the culmination of forty-five years of thinking as a psychiatrist about the relationship between severe mental illnesses and human evolution. I realized that the evolution of upright posture, large molar teeth, opposable thumbs, and large brains were all cumulative responses to a decisive shift in what MOTIVATED early humans compared to apes. I describe in vivid detail how the inner experience of major depression, panic disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder can be interpreted as emotional fossils that illustrate the ape-hominid evolutionary transformation in the mind. This understanding of how our motivations evolved not only allows you to make sense of hominid fossil finds, now with DNA, but offers a simple empathetic understanding of how self-awareness and language work.Although short and explicitly written to be accessible, this essay offers a post-Darwinian world view that is fundamentally optimistic and progressive.
Author: Damien Laverdunt Publisher: ISBN: 9781776573158 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 72
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Walk in the footsteps of the first fossil researchers to discover the earliest animal life on Earth. Explore whether dinosaurs had scales, fur, or feathers. Find out how fish learned to walk. This lively history combines storytelling with science to bring to life incredible creatures that once walked the Earth--the hallucigenia (a creature without tail or head), the tiktaalik (a walking fish), the plesiosaur (a peaceful sea dragon), and many more. Told with illustrations, comics, and facts, it shows how fossils tell a fascinating story about our oldest known species and how scientific thinking evolves.
Author: Rebecca E. Hirsch Publisher: Millbrook Press ISBN: 1728411343 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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In the history of life on this planet, 99.9 percent of all species have gone extinct. But a few have survived almost unchanged. Author Rebecca E. Hirsch introduces readers to six living fossils, including the chambered nautilus, the horseshoe crab with its sticky blue blood, and venomous platypuses that sting, as well as a comprehensive explanation of evolution and extinction for readers who may not be familiar with the terms yet. Readers will also discover a a spectacular timeline of the history of animal life on Earth. Dive into the stories of these incredible animals and find out how they help scientists piece together evolutionary history.
Author: Reuven Tsur Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190634707 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 305
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Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils offers a major theoretical statement of where poetic conventions come from. The work comprises Reuven Tsur's research in cognitive poetics to show how conventional poetic styles originate from cognitive rather than cultural principles. The book contrasts two approaches to cultural conventions in general, and poetic conventions in particular. They include what may be called the "culture-begets-culture" or "influence-hunting" approach, and the "constraints-seeking" or "cognitive-fossils" approach here expounded. The former assumes that one may account for cultural programs by pointing out their roots in earlier cultural phenomena and provide a map of their migrations. The latter assumes that cultural programs originate in cognitive solutions to adaptation problems that have acquired the status of established practice. Both conceptions assume "repeated social transmission," but with very different implications. The former frequently ends in infinite regress; the latter assumes that in the process of repeated social transmission, cultural programs come to take forms which have a good fit to the natural constraints and capacities of the human brain. Tsur extends the principles of this analysis of cognitive origins of poetic form to the writing systems, not only of the Western world, but also to Egyptian hieroglyphs through the evolution of alphabetic writing via old Semitic writing, and Chinese and Japanese writings; to aspects of figuration in medieval and Renaissance love poetry in English and French; to the metaphysical conceit; to theories of poetic translation; to the contemporary theory of metaphor; and to slips of the tongue and the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, showing the workings and disruption of psycholinguistic mechanisms. Analysis extends to such varying sources as the formulae of some Mediaeval Hebrew mystic poems, and the ballad 'Edward,' illustrative of extreme 'fossilization' and the constraints of the human brain.
Author: Rebecca L. Johnson Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm) ISBN: 0761354883 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 68
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Relates the competition between Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope to discover more fossils, name more species, and publish more papers that brought out the best and worst in them and provided the world with a new view of life on Earth.
Author: Ann O. Squire Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 1338832611 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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Fossils are one of the most important tools we have for learning about long-extinct wildlife. A True Book: Earth Science series presents fascinating facts and fun activities that will engage the budding earth scientist, while exploring the fields of geology, meteorology, ecology, and more. This series includes an age appropriate (grades 3-5) introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects and a robust resource section that encourages independent study. In the 4.6 billion years since Earth was formed, many plant and animal species have come and gone. Readers will discover how fossils are formed, how paleontologists search for them, and what kinds of information they can provide.
Author: Adam J. Frank Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452964467 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 228
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An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins The brilliant and complex theories of psychologist Silvan Tomkins (1911–1991) have inspired the turn to affect in the humanities, social sciences, and elsewhere. Nevertheless, these theories are not well understood. A Silvan Tomkins Handbook makes his theories portable across a range of interdisciplinary contexts and accessible to a wide variety of contemporary scholars and students of affect. A Silvan Tomkins Handbook provides readers with a clear outline of Tomkins’s affect theory as he developed it in his four-volume masterwork Affect Imagery Consciousness. It shows how his key terms and conceptual innovations can be used to build robust frameworks for theorizing affect and emotion. In addition to clarifying his affect theory, the Handbook emphasizes Tomkins’s other significant contributions, from his broad theories of imagery and consciousness to more focused concepts of scenes and scripts. With their extensive experience engaging and teaching Tomkins’s work, Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson provide a user-friendly guide for readers who want to know more about the foundations of affect studies.
Author: John Wylie
Author: John Wylie
Author: Sally M. Walker
Author: Damien Laverdunt
Author: Rebecca E. Hirsch
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Author: Reuven Tsur
Author: Rebecca L. Johnson
Author: Ann O. Squire
Author: Adam J. Frank
Author: Frank A. Garcia