It suggests to us that this is an expression of symbolic thinking.
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But, they were beginning to test the borders of symbolic thinking.
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White said, " people had a capacity for symbolic thinking.
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The connection of reason to symbolic thinking has been expressed in different ways by philosophers.
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As Henshilwood explained : " Symbolic thinking means that people are using something to mean something else.
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In 2015 his feature story for National Geographic Magazine explored the origins of human art and symbolic thinking.
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Symbols and symbolic thinking thus make possible a central feature of social relations in every human population : reciprocity.
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But agreement breaks down completely on the question of when, where and how these anatomically modern humans began to manifest creative and symbolic thinking.
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Two years ago, Henshilwood reported finding other evidence of possibly complex symbolic thinking by the inhabitants of Blombos Cave, including abstract engravings and finely worked bone tools and weapon points.
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The decoration, made by the same cave dwellers, was more evidence, the archaeologist said, that " we're pushing back the date of symbolic thinking in modern humans _ far, far back ."