Triangulating Neanderthal cognition: A tale of not seeing the forest for the trees
| Autor: | Michael Breyl |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Neanderthal Inference 050105 experimental psychology Indirect evidence 03 medical and health sciences Cognition 0302 clinical medicine Cognitive biology biology.animal Animals Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Language Neanderthals Scope (project management) biology General Neuroscience Interpretation (philosophy) 05 social sciences General Medicine Biological Evolution Epistemology Humanity 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | WIREs Cognitive Science. 12 |
| ISSN: | 1939-5086 1939-5078 |
| Popis: | The inference of Neanderthal cognition, including their cultural and linguistic capabilities, has persisted as a fiercely debated research topic for decades. This lack of consensus is substantially based on inherent uncertainties in reconstructing prehistory out of indirect evidence as well as other methodological limitations. Further factors include systemic difficulties within interdisciplinary discourse, data artifacts, historic research biases, and the sheer scope of the relevant research. Given the degrees of freedom in interpretation ensuing from these complications, any attempt to find approximate answers to the yet unsettled pertinent discourse may not rest on single studies, but instead a careful and comprehensive interdisciplinary synthesis of findings. Triangulating Neanderthals' cognition by considering the plethora of data, diverse perspectives and aforementioned complexities present within the literature constitutes the currently most reliable pathway to tentative conclusions. While some uncertainties remain, such an approach paints the picture of an extensive shared humanity between anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals. This article is categorized under: Cognitive Biology > Evolutionary Roots of Cognition Linguistics > Evolution of Language. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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