How homo became sapiens : on the evolution of thinking / Peter Gärdenfors.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

ix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Paperback edition published in 2006 and reprinted in 2007.

Thinking from an evolutionary perspective -- Sensation, perception and imagination -- The world within -- Reading other people's minds -- Self-consciousness -- The dawn of language -- The origin of speech -- Externalizing the inner world.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-231) and index.