The Evolved Apprentice - How Evolution Made Humans Unique: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (Jean Nicod Lectures) - Hardcover

Sterelny, Kim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262016796 ISBN 13: 9780262016797

Verlag: MIT Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual behavior, and foraging patterns have all shifted sharply away from other great apes. No other great ape lineage--including those of chimpanzees and gorillas--seems to have undergone such a profound transformation. In The Evolved Apprentice, Kim Sterelny argues that the divergence stems from the fact that humans gradually came to enrich the learning environment of the next generation. Humans came to cooperate in sharing information, and to cooperate ecologically and reproductively as well, and these changes initiated positive feedback loops that drove us further from other great apes.

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Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. His books include Language and Reality (with Michael Devitt; second edition, MIT Press, 1999); Thought in a Hostile World; Dawkins vs. Gould: the Survival of the Fittest; and The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited (coedited with Brett Calcott; MIT Press, 2011).

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262016796
• ISBN 13: 9780262016797
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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