What Happened in the Origin of Human Consciousness?

Anatomical Record - Part B New Anatomist

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-26

  Tattersall, Ian ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Evolution; Exaptation; Human evolution; Intelligence; Neanderthals; Symbolic cognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AFRICA; ANATOMY; ARCHEOLOGY; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETON; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 0842304364     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.b.10041     Document Type: Review

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