“Humanity is another corporeity”: The evolution of human bodily appearance and sociality.
Some accounts of human distinctiveness focus on anatomical features, such as bipedalism and brain size. Others focus on cognitive abilities, such as tool use and manufacture, language, and social cognition. Embodied approaches to cognition highlight the internal relations between these two groups of...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 203; no. 6; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2024
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