Homo ergaster
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| - | '''''The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body''''' (2005) by [[Steven Mithen]]. | ||
| - | Blurb: | + | '''''Homo ergaster''''', also '''''Homo erectus ergaster''''' or '''African ''Homo erectus''''' is an extinct [[chronospecies]] of the genus ''[[Homo]]'' that lived in eastern and southern Africa during the early [[Pleistocene epoch|Pleistocene]], between about 1.9 million and 1.4 million years ago. |
| - | Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, music has been neglected if not ignored. Like language it is a [[Cultural universal|universal]] feature of [[human culture]], one that is a permanent fixture in our daily lives. | ||
| - | In THE SINGING NEANDERTHALS, Steven Mithen redresses the balance, drawing on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies through child psychology and the communication systems of non-human primates to the latest [[paleoarchaeological]] evidence. | ||
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| - | The result is a fascinating and provocative work and a succinct riposte to those, like [[Steven Pinker]], who have dismissed music as a functionless and unimportant evolutionary byproduct. | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| - | *[[John Blacking]], [[Otto Jespersen]], [[Rousseau]]'s "[[Essay on the Origin of Languages ]]" | + | * ''[[Homo cepranensis]]'' |
| - | *[[Dylan Evans]] work on emotions as well as that of [[Antonio Damasio]] and [[Joseph LeDoux]]. | + | * ''[[Homo erectus]]'' |
| - | *[[Mr. Spock]] | + | * ''[[Homo georgicus]]'' |
| - | *[[Passions Within Reason]] by Robert H. Frank | + | * ''[[Homo habilis]]'' |
| - | *Forgas and Moylan 1987 | + | |
| - | *[[Bipedalism]] | + | |
| - | *[[hmm]] | + | |
| - | *[[Homo ergaster]] | + | |
| + | '''General:''' | ||
| + | * [[List of fossil sites]] | ||
| + | * [[List of human evolution fossils]] | ||
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Homo ergaster, also Homo erectus ergaster or African Homo erectus is an extinct chronospecies of the genus Homo that lived in eastern and southern Africa during the early Pleistocene, between about 1.9 million and 1.4 million years ago.
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