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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix; New Ed edition (4 May 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 075380204X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753802045
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19,534 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'An accessible, very well written, provocative and most valuable book' Lewis Wolpert, Observer How do our minds work? When did language and religious beliefs first emerge? Why was there a cultural explosion of art and creativity with the arrival of modern humans? This ground-breaking book brings the insight of archaeology to our understanding of the development and history of the human mind, combining them with ideas from evolutionary psychology in a brilliant and provocative synthesis.

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'An accessible, very well written, provocative and most valuable book' Lewis Wolpert, Observer How do our minds work? When did language and religious beliefs first emerge? Why was there a cultural explosion of art and creativity with the arrival of modern humans? This ground-breaking book brings the insight of archaeology to our understanding of the development and history of the human mind, combining them with ideas from evolutionary psychology in a brilliant and provocative synthesis.

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