The evolved apprentice : how evolution made humans unique / Kim Sterelny.
2012
BF698.95
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Title
The evolved apprentice : how evolution made humans unique / Kim Sterelny.
Author
ISBN
9780262302814 (electronic bk.)
0262302810 (electronic bk.)
9780262016797 (print)
9780262526661 (print)
0262302810 (electronic bk.)
9780262016797 (print)
9780262526661 (print)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages).
Item Number
9780262302814
Call Number
BF698.95
Dewey Decimal Classification
155.7
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.
Note
"A Bradford book."
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.
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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