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Marks and Meanings: new perspectives on the evolution of human symbolic behavior
Abstract
Understanding the unique evolutionary trajectory taken by humanity is impossible without an appreciation of our singular capacities for symbolic cognition and behaviour, which have evolved into the diverse practices of communication, art, reasoning, and ritual we encounter today (Deacon, 1998; Donald, 1991). But how did these capacities evolve during the Late Pleistocene?