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Tables and Figures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2023

Raymond Hickey
Raymond Hickey
Affiliation:
University of Limerick

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Life and Language Beyond Earth , pp. xv - xvi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

Tables and Figures

  • Table 0.1Structure of the book

  • Table 13.1A top-down view of Homo sapiens in its larger evolutionary context

  • Table 13.2Increase in brain size in hominins over time

  • Table 15.1Three monophyletic groups in comparison

  • Table 15.2Five human senses

  • Table 21.1Cognitive categories and their possible expression in language

  • Table 22.1Bottom-up approach to language organisation

  • Table 24.1Features of four major aphasias

  • Table 25.1Stages of acquisition

  • Table 27.1Likelihood of life, in decreasing order

  • Table 31.1Primary and secondary functions with respect to speech

  • Table 32.1Transition from direct to symbolic reference

  • Table 32.2Types of neural oscillations

  • Table 33.1Some common words of English and their (standard) pronunciations in phonetic transcription

  • Figure 1.1Our Earth as a set of one

  • Figure 4.1The Milky Way with approximate location of our Solar System

  • Figure 4.2The observable universe

  • Figure 8.1The habitable zone of a star

  • Figure 8.2Jupiter’s moon Europa (cross-section showing structure)

  • Figure 13.1The Great Rift Valley (East Africa)

  • Figure 13.2Main migration routes out of Africa

  • Figure 13.3Head of chimpanzee (left) and human (right)

  • Figure 13.4Comparative brain sizes of humans and some primates

  • Figure 13.5Chimpanzee and human hands and feet

  • Figure 13.6Power and precision grip

  • Figure 13.7Human ear

  • Figure 15.1Cutaway view of the human brain

  • Figure 15.2Neurons and their connections

  • Figure 16.1Prenatal development of the human brain

  • Figure 20.1Duality of patterning

  • Figure 20.2Diachronic and synchronic views of language

  • Figure 20.3Signifiant and signifié after Saussure

  • Figure 20.4Syntagm and paradigm

  • Figure 22.1Levels of language

  • Figure 22.2Human breathing apparatus

  • Figure 22.3Human larynx (anterior and sagittal view)

  • Figure 22.4Vocal tract with points of articulation

  • Figure 22.5Vowel quadrangle

  • Figure 24.1A schematic representation of nerve cells

  • Figure 24.2Regions of the human brain (simplified)

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