This text is an accessible and eloquent contribution to understanding the biological, cognitive and brain sciences to the humanities coordinated to analyze the nature of language and meaning in studies of animal behavior, human evolution and neuroscience invitation. The test, corrected, expanded and illustrated, consists of the inaugural address of neuroscientist and psychobiologist Jose Luis Diaz of the Mexican Academy of Language, which took place on June 12, 2014 in the Tamayo Museum of the City of Mexico.
The book shows that certain intentional and symbolic expressions in various animal species are foundations of human language and propositional thought. Exposes how the skill of the right hand, toolmaking, symbolic language and the dominance of the left hemisphere are crimped capabilities that emerged during human split from apes. Also proposes that while the modularity of ...read more