The evolved apprentice how evolution made humans unique
Kim Sterelny develops a novel account of the speed and extent of human evolutionary divergence from the great ape stock. The book does not explain human uniqueness by positing a critical adaptive breakthrough (episodic memory; advanced theory of mind; planning and causal reasoning; language). Rather...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.
The MIT Press
2012
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| Series: | The Jean Nicod lectures
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Kim Sterelny develops a novel account of the speed and extent of human evolutionary divergence from the great ape stock. The book does not explain human uniqueness by positing a critical adaptive breakthrough (episodic memory; advanced theory of mind; planning and causal reasoning; language). Rather, it identifies a series of positive feedback loops between initially minor advances in social tolerance, ecological flexibility, cooperative foraging, social learning, and links the results of these feedback loops to the archaeological and anthropological record |
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| Item Description: | "A Bradford book." |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 242 pages |
| ISBN: | 0262302810 9780262302814 |