Cecilia Heyes
New thinking: the evolution of human cognition
University of Oxford|Google (United States)
humans animals specialize thinking knowing extraordinary cognitive abilities transformed every aspect lives contrast chimpanzee cousins stone age ancestors complex political economic scientific artistic creatures living vast range habitats many creation research evolution human cognition asks types thinking make us peculiar animals generated evolutionary processes new research field looks deeper evolutionary history human cognition adopts multidisciplinary approach earlier evolutionary psychology informed comparisons humans range primate nonprimate species integrates findings anthropology archaeology economics evolutionary biology neuroscience philosophy psychology using methods recent research reveals profound commonalities well striking differences human nonhuman minds suggests evolution human cognition much gradual incremental previously assumed accords crucial roles cultural evolution technosocial coevolution geneculture coevolution produced domaingeneral developmental processes extraordinary powerpower makes human cognition human lives unique