On the Origins of Human Emotions – A Sociological Inquiry into the Evolution of…
On the Origins of Human EmotionsA Sociological Inquiry Into the Evolution of Human Affect\nAuthor(s): Jonathan H. Turner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804737197, 978-0804737197\nSynopsis\nLanguage and culture are often seen as unique characteristics of human beings. In this book the author argues that our ability to use a wide array of emotions evolved long before spoken language and, in fact, constituted a preadaptation for the speech and culture that developed among later hominids. Long before humans could speak with words, they communicated through body language their emotional dispositions; and it is the neurological wiring of the brain for these emotional languages that represented the key evolutionary breakthrough for our species.\n\n How did natural selection work on the basic ape anatomy and neuroanatomy to create the hominid line? The author suggests that what distinguished our ancesto.
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