The Rise of Homo Sapiens The Evolution of Modern Thinking

This book provides an introduction to the subject of hominin cognitive evolution. The book includes chapters on neural anatomy, working memory, evolutionary methods, and non-human primate cognition, covering major developments in cognition over the span of hominin evolution from the ape-like cognition of Ardipithecus to the final developments that enabledthe modern mind. This second edition includes discussion of the role of sleep in hominin evolution and the difference between Neandertal and modern human cognition, with significant developments since the publication of the first edition. This edition also adds greater emphasis to the growing fields of epigenetic inheritance, embodied cognition, and neuroaesthetics, as well as the role and status of Homo heidelbergensis.