Review of Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species [Book Review]

Journal of Consciousness Studies 5 (5/6):746-748 (1998)
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Terrence Deacon has constructed a tome in which he unleashes his considerable learning in quest of several answers to the question, "What are we?" He is uniquely qualified to take an approach which details the origin and development of, first, language, then the brain, and, lastly, their "co-evolution".

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