John McCrone, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-10326-2
From hairy hominids, rational, self-aware human beings sprang into existence within a mere two million years--an eye-blink in geological terms. McCrone believes it was language that triggered the quantum leap in human development, allowing Homo...
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John McCrone, Author Avon Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71399-8
This exciting evolutionary odyssey, which was a BOMC and History Book Club selection in cloth, interweaves recent advances in linguistics and anthropology and controversially concludes that imagination and higher emotions are language-driven...
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John McCrone, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $24 (339p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0067-7
McCrone ( The Ape That Spoke ) redraws the map of psychology in this iconoclastic, often provocative work. He labels as harmful fallacy the persistent belief, from Plato to Freud, that humans have an irrational, emotional core. Instead of Freud's...
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