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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The University Center for Human Values Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 5 halftones. 21 line illus. 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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