A Different Kind of Animal : : How Culture Transformed Our Species / / Robert Boyd.
How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other...
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Boyd, Robert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Different Kind of Animal : How Culture Transformed Our Species / Robert Boyd. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2018 1 online resource (248 p.) : 5 halftones. 21 line illus. 1 table. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The University Center for Human Values Series ; 46 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Not by Brains Alone: The Vital Role Of Culture In Human Adaptation -- CHAPTER 2. Beyond Kith And Kin: Culture And The Scale Of Human Cooperation -- COMMENTS -- CHAPTER 3. Imitation, Hayek, and the Significance of Cultural Learning -- CHAPTER 4. Adaption Without Insight? -- CHAPTER 5. Inference and Hypothesis Testing in Cultural Evolution -- CHAPTER 6. Adaptable, Cooperative, Manipulative, and Rivalrous -- RESPONSE -- CHAPTER 7. Culture, Beliefs, and Decisions -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability-people are just smarter than all the rest. But in this compelling book, Robert Boyd argues that culture-our ability to learn from each other-has been the essential ingredient of our remarkable success.A Different Kind of Animal demonstrates that while people are smart, we are not nearly smart enough to have solved the vast array of problems that confronted our species as it spread across the globe. Over the past two million years, culture has evolved to enable human populations to accumulate superb local adaptations that no individual could ever have invented on their own. It has also made possible the evolution of social norms that allow humans to make common cause with large groups of unrelated individuals, a kind of society not seen anywhere else in nature. This unique combination of cultural adaptation and large-scale cooperation has transformed our species and assured our survival-making us the different kind of animal we are today.Based on the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, A Different Kind of Animal features challenging responses by biologist H. Allen Orr, philosopher Kim Sterelny, economist Paul Seabright, and evolutionary anthropologist Ruth Mace, as well as an introduction by Stephen Macedo. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) Human evolution. Social evolution. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution. bisacsh Boyd, Robert, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Mace, Ruth, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Macedo, Stephen, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Orr, H. Allen, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Seabright, Paul, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Sterelny, Kim, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606591 print 9780691177731 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400888528?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400888528 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400888528/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Not by Brains Alone: The Vital Role Of Culture In Human Adaptation -- CHAPTER 2. Beyond Kith And Kin: Culture And The Scale Of Human Cooperation -- COMMENTS -- CHAPTER 3. Imitation, Hayek, and the Significance of Cultural Learning -- CHAPTER 4. Adaption Without Insight? -- CHAPTER 5. Inference and Hypothesis Testing in Cultural Evolution -- CHAPTER 6. Adaptable, Cooperative, Manipulative, and Rivalrous -- RESPONSE -- CHAPTER 7. Culture, Beliefs, and Decisions -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index |
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