The last decade has witnessed a sophistication and proliferation in the
number of studies focused on the evolution of human cognition,
reflecting a renewed interest in the evolution of the human mind in
anthropology and in many other disciplines. The complexity and enormity
of this topic requires the coordinated efforts of many researchers. This
volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology,
anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues,
including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the
role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between
brain size, cranial reorganization and hominid cognition, and the role
of language and information processing in human evolution.