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Re: Book suggestions about evolution of Mind/Hand?S G J Assemblage (Assemblage@shef.ac.uk)Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:00:44 +0100
and Cognition in Human Evolution", Cambridge 1993. This is edited by Kathleen Gibson and Tim Ingold, but therein you will find articles by other authors who are important in this field such as McGrew, Visalberghi, Wynn, Davidson and Noble and Toth and Schick.These papers all have bibliographies citing other useful articles. Davidson and Noble in particular are evolution-of-speech people and have many articles pubished in CA and other organs, Toth and Schick are tool-making folks and have a good book out ("Making Silent Stones Speak", Wiedenfield and Nicholson 1993) as well as an article in Jnl Arch Science last year (or possibly 1994) about teaching Kanzi to chip flint. You might also try stuff by Philip Lieberman (zillions of articles in CA and others as well as a book, "Uniquely Human: The evolution of speech, thought and selfless behavior", Harvard UP 1993). His bibliography will refer you to stuff about brains, cognition and psycholinguistics. About the evolution of hand anatomy, well, that's not really my field, but you might start by looking out for articles by Sussman about thumbs. Perhaps a good evolutionary anatomy textbook (eg Aiello and Dean 1994, "Human Evolutionary Anatomy", Blackie) or all-round human evolution source book (eg Bilsborough 1992, "Human Evolution", Blackie) might have some useful stuff and/or references. My field is the behavioural areas of neanderthal studies. Let me know if I can help any more. You've picked a really interesting topic, good luck with it. Jennie
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