Darwin's Unfinished Symphony : : How Culture Made the Human Mind / / Kevin N. Laland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• VerfasserIn: Laland, Kevin N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Part I. Foundations Of Culture --; Chapter 1. Darwin'S Unfinished Symphony --; Chapter 2. Ubiquitous Copying --; Chapter 3. Why Copy? --; Chapter 4. A Tale of Two Fishes --; Chapter 5. The Roots of Creativity --; Part II. The Evolution Of the Mind --; Chapter 6. The Evolution of Intelligence --; Chapter 7. High Fidelity --; Chapter 8. Why We Alone Have Language --; Chapter 9. Gene- Culture Coevolution --; Chapter 10. The Dawn of Civilization --; Chapter 11. Foundations of Cooperation --; Chapter 12. The Arts --; Epilogue: Awe Without Wonder --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691184470; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604207; 9783110603200; 9783110606591
• DOI: 10.23943/9780691184470?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kevin N. Laland.

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mind-and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture-evolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin's Unfinished Symphony presents a captivating new theory of human cognitive evolution. This compelling and accessible book reveals how culture is not just the magnificent end product of an evolutionary process that produced a species unlike all others-it is also the key driving force behind that process. Kevin Laland tells the story of the painstaking fieldwork, the key experiments, the false leads, and the stunning scientific breakthroughs that led to this new understanding of how culture transformed human evolution. It is the story of how Darwin's intellectual descendants picked up where he left off and took up the challenge of providing a scientific account of the evolution of the human mind.