Out of Our Minds

What We Think and How We Came to Think It

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Noting that ideas shape the world we inhabit, Felipe Fernández-Armesto surveys humanity's visionary leaps over the last 200,000 years. Beginning with a reconstruction of our Palaeolithic ancestors' thoughts and ending with an analysis of how memory, imagination and communication are evolving in the 21st century, he explores the cognitive processes that trigger ideas and reviews the thinking – good and bad – that has developed us throughout history.

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