The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans by Stanley I. Greenspan, Stuart G. Shanker

The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans

Stanley I. Greenspan, Stuart G. Shanker

512 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In the childhood of every human being and at the dawn of human history there is an amazing and, until now, unexplained leap from simple genetically programmed behavior to language, symbolic thinking, and culture. In The First Idea, Stanley Greensp...

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