Tag: Blombos Cave beads

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 4, 2024

Categorized
Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind

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Adrian Currie, Andra Meneganzin, Anton Killin, Blombos Cave beads, Cognitive paleoanthropology, Design inference (role in paleoanthropology), Inference (role in paleoanthropology), Language origin, Mathilde Lequin, Ross Pain, Rudolf Botha}

Can We Really Study the Minds of Ancient Humans?

_{The design inference helps sort things out in human paleontology} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 4, 2024

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Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind}

It’s progress, perhaps, that researchers are defending the role of parsimonious inference. It’s possible to see too much in scattered beads — or too little. Read More ›