A MIND SO RARE
The Evolution of Human Consciousness
Merlin Donald
W. W. Norton, 2001
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: After reading this book, the reader will understand the nature of the evolution of cognition and the relationship between cognition and biological evolution, which forms the foundation of the author's theory. The reader will understand the theory presented of the 'hybrid mind,' that consciousness arises due to an interaction between the supercomplex mental processing in the recently-evolved human brain and less-evolved biology of the body and nervous system.
The book discusses which animals have consiousness and in what degree; three different levels of awareness that organisms experience; the transitions in mind between early humankind, early civilized human beings, and us; and the role of external memory and external memory systems in the creation of modern consciousness.
Merlin Donald, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is also the author of ORIGINS OF THE MODERN MIND.
14 CE credits ; 371 pages
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