Books in the Symposia of the Fyssen Foundation series

This volume brings together contributions on the theme of tools from international specialists in various disciplines. To understand the origin, techniques and uses of tools, a fascinating comparison is made of chimpanzee techniques with prehistoric Man and twentieth-centry Man. This valuable analysis and understanding is also studied in parallel societies.

Understanding cause-effect relationships is fundamental to the study of cognition. This book presents the developments in the study of causal cognition and discuss their different perspectives. The result is an interdisciplinary debate aimed at the non-specialist.

This work presents the views of a group of scientists from the fields of anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology, to provide a starting point for a debate based on the most recent scientific data relating to the evolutionary origins of the human brain.