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Author : Rod S. Phares
Release : 1995
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Book Synopsis The Symbolic Dimensions of the Relationship Between Human and Non Human Animals by : Rod S. Phares
Download or read book The Symbolic Dimensions of the Relationship Between Human and Non Human Animals written by Rod S. Phares. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ulrike Griebel
Release : 2024-06-13
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis The Quest for Symbolic Communication in Non-Human Animals by : Ulrike Griebel
Download or read book The Quest for Symbolic Communication in Non-Human Animals written by Ulrike Griebel. This book was released on 2024-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human language is unique among animals. We assume that complex cognitive capacities in general and language in particular evolved gradually and thus are manifest in different kinds and/or degrees in other animals demonstrating social communication. This assumption is supported by the fact that we can train social species from very different groups of animals (e.g. great apes, dolphins, dogs, parrots) to understand and in several cases even use abstract symbols for communication with humans and conspecifics. Even simple grammatical rules for sequences of 2-3 symbols can be trained to be understood by several species (e.g. great apes, dogs, dolphins). Even though human language training in these species takes considerable time and effort, it convinces us that cognitive foundations for language are present in other species, and, given the relevant selection pressures, symbolic communication could evolve in other species.
Author : Nandita Batra
Release : 2020-07-13
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 573/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Of Mice and Men by : Nandita Batra
Download or read book Of Mice and Men written by Nandita Batra. This book was released on 2020-07-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Culture is a book-length collection of essays that examines human views of non-human animals. The essays are written by scholars from Australia, East Asia, Europe and the Americas, who represent a wide range of disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Addressing topics such as animal rights, ecology, anthropocentrism, feminism, animal domestication, dietary restrictions, and cultural imperialism, the book considers local and global issues as well as ancient and contemporary discourses, and it will appeal to readers with both general and specialized interests in the role played by animals in human cultures.
Author : Karen L. Edwards
Release : 2019-08-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Reading Literary Animals by : Karen L. Edwards
Download or read book Reading Literary Animals written by Karen L. Edwards. This book was released on 2019-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which they appear. Through investigations of works by Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Ted Hughes, among many others, Reading Literary Animals demonstrates the value of distinctively literary animal studies.
Author : Terrence W. Deacon
Release : 1998-04-17
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by : Terrence W. Deacon
Download or read book The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain written by Terrence W. Deacon. This book was released on 1998-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.
