num_pages: 216
description: There is a missing link in human evolution about which few facts are known and surprisingly little has been written - the early human mind.Lumsden and Wilson attribute the sudden emergence of the human mind to gene-culture co-evolution, a mutually acting change in the genes and culture that carried man beyond the previous limits of biology - yet restrains his nature on an elastic, unbreakable leash.
language: English
title: Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind
titlecomplete: Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind
genres: Science, Psychology, History
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Harvard University Press