The Symbolic Species Evolved

Introduction - searching the missing links.- Part I: The Biosemiotic Connection.- 1. Towards a semiotic cognitive science: why neither the phenomenological nor computational approaches are adequate.- 2. The Symbolic Species hypothesis revisited.- 3. Peirce and Deacon on meaning and the evolution of language.- 4. Semiosis beyond signs. On a two or three missing links on the way to human beings.- Part II: The Prehistoric and Comparative Connection.- 5. The natural history of intentionality. A biosemiotic approach.- 6. The evolution of learning to communicate: Avian model for the missing link.- 7. From parsing actions to understanding intentions.- 8. New non-Linnaean, neo-cladistic nomenclature and classification conventions exemplified by recent and fossil hominids.- 9. ¬¬¬¬The tripod effect: Coevolution of cooperation, cognition and communication.- Part III: The Cognitive and Anthropological Connection.- 10. Language as a repository of tacit knowledge.- 11. Levels of immersion and embodiment.- 12. Emerging symbols.- 13. Gender in innovative techno fantasies.- Epilogue.- 14. New perspectives.- Index.