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1 Online-Ressource (xii, 368 pages)
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ISBN:
9781108348140
Content:
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, our languages, and science? The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment
Content:
The alien's challenge -- Darwin comes to mind -- The SeXX/XY animal -- The dating, mating, baby-making animal -- The altruistic animal -- The cultural animal -- Appendix A How to win an argument with a blank slater -- Appendix B How to win an argument with an anti-memeticist -- Permissions -- Notes -- References -- Index
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Sep 2018)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108425049
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stewart-Williams, Steve, 1971 - The ape that understood the universe Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781108425049
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Evolutionspsychologie
;
Verhaltenspsychologie
;
Evolution
;
Kultur
DOI:
10.1017/9781108348140
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