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62: A Model Kit

✍ Scribed by Julio Cortázar


Publisher
New Directions
Year
2013
Tongue
en-US
Weight
165 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0811225046

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✦ Synopsis


First published in English in 1972 and long out of print, 62: A Model Kit is Julio Cortázar's brilliant, intricate blueprint for life in the so-called "City." Here is an exhilarating intellectual performance, in the tradition of Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct. On the way to showing how the world of our ancient ancestors shaped our modern modular mind, Steven Mithen shares one provocative insight after another as he answers a series of fascinating questions:

  • Were our brains hard-wired in the Pleistocene Era by the needs of hunter-gatherers?
  • When did religious beliefs first emerge?
  • Why were the first paintings made by humankind so technically accomplished and expressive?
  • What can the sexual habits of chimpanzees tell us about the prehistory of the modern mind?
    This is the first archaeological account to support the new modular concept of the mind. The concept, promulgated by cognitive...

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