Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of the Mind

by Charles J. Lumsden

Other authorsEdward O. Wilson, Whitney Powell (Illustrator)
Paperback, 1984

Status

Available

Call number

304.5

Collection

Publication

Harvard University Press (1984), Paperback, 224 pages

Description

There is a missing link in human evolution about which few facts are known and surprisingly little has been written. It is not any one of the intermediate forms connecting modern man to his apelike ancestors. It is something much more challenging -- the early human mind. How did it come into existence? And why?

Language

Physical description

228 p.; 9.04 inches

ISBN

1583484256 / 9781583484258
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