Emergence of Archaic Homo Sapiens, Neandertal and Modern Homo Sapiens and the Development of More Complex Lifeways

 

PONDER: The Story of Dolni Vestonice

Language and the Brain

Cultural Selection and Language

LANGUAGE ORIGINS and WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE?

The First Language

Selected Quotes to Ponder

What we can Learn from Armadillos?


William Calvin has written a book that helps set a tone for our exploration of the emergence of modern humans. The following chapters of his book may be valuable to you as you ponder this area:

The Ascent of Mind - the book!

The Throwing Madonna

A Brain for All Seasons - Climate and Man

How The Brain Thinks

How the Shaman Stole the Moon


Our image of Neandertal, is it appropriate? Strength, stamina and human type burials - is he a dumb brute?

Was Neandertal a Separate Species?

What's in a nose?