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Biological evolution of cognition and culture: Off Arbib's mirror-neuron system stage?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Horacio Fabrega Jr.*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA15213

Abstract:

Arbib offers a comprehensive, elegant formulation of brain/language evolution; with significant implications for social as well as biological sciences. Important psychological antecedents and later correlates are presupposed; their conceptual enrichment through protosign and protospeech is abbreviated in favor of practical communication. What culture “is” and whether protosign and protospeech involve a protoculture are not considered. Arbib also avoids dealing with the question of evolution of mind, consciousness, and self.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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