Handbook of Human Symbolic
Evolution

Edited by

ANDREW LOCK & CHARLES R. PETERS

Contents

Part I: Palaeoanthropology

1.
Photogallery of fossil skulls

2.
An outline of human phylogeny

3
Evolutionary trees of apes and humans from DNA sequences

4
Evolution of the human brain

5
Evolution of the hand and bipedality

Part II: Social and socio-cultural systems

Editorial introduction to Part II: Social and socio-cultural systems

Part II(a): Comparative perspectives

6
Primate communication, lies, and ideas

7
Social relations, human ecology, and the evolution of culture: an exploration of concepts and definitions

8
Social relations, communication, and cognition

Part II(b): Palaeoanthropological perspectives

9
On the evolution of human socio-cultural patterns

10
The evolution of tools and symbolic behaviour

11
The interpretation of European 'Palaeolithic art': Magic, mythogram, and metaphors for modernity

12
Photogallery of contemporary hunter-gatherer art
A. Australian Aboriginal art

B. South African Bushman art

Part III: Ontogeny and symbolism

Editorial introduction to Part III: Ontogeny: symbolic development and symbolic evolution

13
The role of ontogenesis in human evolution and development

14
The ontogeny and evolution of the brain, cognition, and language

15
Early interaction and cognitive skills: implications for the acquisition of culture

16
The origins of language and thought in early childhood

17
Theories of symbolization and development

18
Children's drawings and the evolution of art

Part IV: Language systems

Editorial introduction to Part IV: Language systems in an evolutionary perspective

20
Spoken language and sign language

21
A history of the study of language origins and the gestural primacy hypothesis

22
Cognitive abilities in a comparative perspective

23
Animal language and cognition projects

24
Symbols and structures in language acquisition

25
The reconstruction of the evolution of human spoken language

26
Theoretical stages in the prehistory of grammar

27
Social and cognitive factors in the historical elaboration of writing

Part V: Epilogue

28
Tempo and mode of change in the evolution of symbolism