The Secret of Our Success : : How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter / / Joseph Henrich.
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 p.) :; 34 halftones. 21 line illus. 3 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- 1. A Puzzling Primate
- 2. It’s Not Our Intelligence
- 3. Lost European Explorers
- 4. How to Make a Cultural Species
- 5. What Are Big Brains For? Or, How Culture Stole Our Guts
- 6. Why Some People Have Blue Eyes
- 7. On the Origin of Faith
- 8. Prestige, Dominance, and Menopause
- 9. In- Laws, Incest Taboos, and Rituals
- 10. Intergroup Competition Shapes Cultural Evolution
- 11. Self- Domestication
- 12. Our Collective Brains
- 13. Communicative Tools with Rules
- 14. Enculturated Brains and Honorable Hormones
- 15. When We Crossed the Rubicon
- 16. Why Us?
- 17. A New Kind of Animal
- Notes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Index