{"product_id":"a-brief-history-of-the-mind-from-apes-to-intellect-and-beyond-paperback","title":"A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Calvin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no \"What if?\" and \"Why\u003cbr\u003eme?\" William H. Calvin takes stock of what we have now and then explains why we are nearing a crossroads, where mind shifts gears again. \u003cbr\u003e The mind's big bang came long after our brain size stopped enlarging. Calvin suggests that the development of long sentences--what modern children do in their third year--was the most likely trigger. To keep a half-dozen concepts from blending together like a summer drink, you need some\u003cbr\u003emental structuring. In saying \"I think I saw him leave to go home,\" you are nesting three sentences inside a fourth. We also structure plans, play games with rules, create structured music and chains of logic, and have a fascination with discovering how things hang together. Our long train of\u003cbr\u003econnected thoughts is why our consciousness is so different from what came before.\u003cbr\u003e Where does mind go from here, its powers extended by science-enhanced education but with its slowly evolving gut instincts still firmly anchored in the ice ages? We will likely shift gears again, juggling more concepts and making decisions even faster, imagining courses of action in greater\u003cbr\u003edepth. Ethics are possible only because of a human level of ability to speculate, judge quality, and modify our possible actions accordingly. Though science increasingly serves as our headlights, we are out-driving them, going faster than we can react effectively.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam H. Calvin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a neurobiologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who wanders regularly into anthropology, evolution, and climate change. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eA Brain for All Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Phi Beta Kappa 2002 Book Award for contributions to literature by scientists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.22 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 08, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256317108326,"sku":"9780195182484","price":39.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/MzRyTU9VUElybFhJcG1McVRHTkU0dz09.webp?v=1773712230","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/a-brief-history-of-the-mind-from-apes-to-intellect-and-beyond-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}