UID:
almahu_9948043370102882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 242 p.).
ISBN:
9780262302814 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
The Jean Nicod lectures
Content:
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.
Note:
"A Bradford book."
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780262016797
Language:
English
URL:
MIT Press scholarship online
