List of Figures
1. Introduction
2. The Brain
3. Working Memory
4. Brain Evolution
5. Primates
6. Early Hominins
7. Homo erectus
8. The First Major Leap in Cognition: The Tree-to-Ground Sleep
Transition
9. Homo heidelbergensis and the Beginnings of Modern Thinking
10. The Rise and Fall of Neandertals
11. Enhanced Working Memory and the Evolution of Modern
Thinking
Glossary
References
Index
Frederick L. Coolidge, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He focuses primarily on
behavioral genetics, paleopsychology, and personality disorders
across the lifespan.
Thomas Wynn, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He has published
extensively in Palaeolithic archaeology, with a particular emphasis
on cognitive evolution.
Both editors are well-known in paleoanthropology as advocates of
the enhanced working memory hypothesis for recent cognitive
evolution. In 2012, they co-founded the UCCS Center for Cognitive
Archaeology. They have also published numerous articles and books
together, including How To Think Like a Neandertal (OUP 2012) and
Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology (OUP 2016).
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