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The Prehistory of the Mind: A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science
Orion Publishing Group (1996)
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Since the 1980s consensus opinion is that the mind is like a collection of specialised modules each tasked for a specific purpose. The author seeks to elucidate and account for this theory and explain what it means to be human in this context.Other Versions
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