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  • Who and What Are We? And When Did We Get Here?

    The modern human’s capacity for symbolic information-processing truly is unique among living creatures. And this, of course, invites us to inquire just when our precursors acquired such exceptional cognitive traits. Do these traits have deep roots in the past, having emerged insensibly under natural selection as hominid brains enlarged? Or did they appear suddenly and all at once? And, if so, when?

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    Topics: Human Evolution Human Uniqueness Ian Tattersall

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