What Makes Humans Unique: Evolution and the Two Structures of Mind

by Michael Robbins

Through an integrated multi-disciplinary theory, Michael Robbins proposes that the human mind consists of two mental structures: the one we share with other animate creatures and a capacity for reflective representational thought which is unique.

As an alternative to Freud's model of the human mind as structured by the id, ego, and superego, this book contends that the prolonged period of post-natal immaturity - otherwise known as neoteny...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032564911
• ISBN13: 9781032564913
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"