Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages).
ISBN:
9780262302814
,
0262302810
Series Statement:
The Jean Nicod lectures 2012
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:
ISBN 9780262016797
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262526661
Language:
English
