Background
Hauser, Marc D. was born on October 25, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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The current wave of research activity on the evolution of cognition is rooted, both historically and intellectually, in the question of how human language evolved. But scientific progress on this question has been stalled in a debate about whether the question can even be broached. Breaking this deadlock, "The Evolution of Communication" addresses the problems of how communication systems, including language, have been designed over the course of evolution. "The Evolution of Communication" looks at species in their natural environments as a way to begin to understand what the real units of analysis of communicating systems are, using arguments about design and function to illuminate both the origin and subsequent evolution of each system. The book is broadly integrative, synthesizing conceptual issues and empirical results from neurobiology, cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, evolutionary biology, ethology, and anthropology. It covers a diverse group of organisms, including insects, frogs, birds, bats, monkeys and humans, dissecting the unique design features of each species' communication system. Hauser places comparative communication into the structure of Tinbergen's four causal questions (with some modification) in an examination of communication and neurobiological design, ontogenetic design, adaptive design and psychological design. For each major topic he works through a small set of cases that elegantly and comprehensively illustrate a particular process. The empirical work is restricted to natural communicating systems that use auditory, visual or audiovisual signals.
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Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book Moral Minds is revolutionary. He argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Experience tunes up our moral actions, guiding what we do as opposed to how we deliver our moral verdicts. For hundreds of years, scholars have argued that moral judgments arise from rational and voluntary deliberations about what ought to be. The common belief today is that we reach moral decisions by consciously reasoning from principled explanations of what society determines is right or wrong. This perspective has generated the further belief that our moral psychology is founded entirely on experience and education, developing slowly and subject to considerable variation across cultures. In his groundbreaking book, Hauser shows that this dominant view is illusory. Combining his own cutting-edge research with findings in cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and anthropology, he examines the implications of his theory for issues of bioethics, religion, law, and our everyday lives.
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Bound to become a classic and to stimulate debate and research, The Evolution of Communication looks at species in their natural environments as a way to begin to understand what the real units of analysis of communicating systems are, using arguments about design and function to illuminate both the origin and subsequent evolution of each system. It lights the way for a research program that seriously addresses the problem of how communication systems, including language, have been designed over the course of evolution.
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Do animals think? Can they count? Do they have emotions? Do they feel anger, frustration, hurt, or sorrow? At last, here is a book that provides authoritative answers to these long-standing questions. Most popular science books t to misrepresent animals, presenting them either as furry little humans or as creatures that cannot feel at all. Marc D. Hauser, an acclaimed scientist in the field of animal cognition, uses insights from evolutionary theory and cognitive science to examine animal thought without such biases or preconceptions. Hauser treats animals neither as machines devoid of feeling nor as extensions of humans, but as independent beings driven by their own complex impulses. In prose that is both elegant and edifying, Hauser describes his groundbreaking research in the field, leading his readers on what David Premack, author of The Mind of an Ape, calls "a masterful tour of the animal mind."
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Hauser, Marc D. was born on October 25, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Bachelor of Science, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1987.
Postdoctoral fellow evolution and human behavior progressive University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987—1988. Postdoctoral fellow Field Research Center, Rockefeller University, Millbrook, New York, 1988—1989. Postdoctoral fellow department zoology University California, Davis, 1989—1992, research associate, lecturer department psychology & zoology, 1991—1992.
Assistant professor department anthropology, psychology & progressive in neuroscience Harvard University, 1992—1994, associate professor, 1995—1998, professor department psychology & program in neuroscience, since 1998, adjunct professor Graduate School Education, since 2001, co-director Mind, Brain & Behavior Program, since 2003, faculty department organismic and evolutionary biology, since 2005, faculty department biological anthropology, since 2005, fellow Center for Ethics, director Cognitive Evolution Lab. Honorary lecturer department zoology Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 1987—1988. Member interdisciplinary faculty Speech & Hearing Sciences Progressive Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1995.
Member science board Fyssen Foundation, Paris, 1998—2003.
( Bound to become a classic and to stimulate debate and r...)
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(The current wave of research activity on the evolution of...)
( Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book...)
Member of Animal Behavior Society, Acoustical Society of America (member animal bioacoustics technical committee since 1991), International Behavioral Ecology Society, American Primatological Society, International Society Infant Studies, Cognitive Neurosci. Society, Neuroethology Society.
Married Lilan Basse; children: Alexandra, Sofia.
