The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human - Hardcover

Shipman, Pat

 
9780393070545: The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393070549 ISBN 13: 9780393070545
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Why do humans all over the world take in and nurture other animals? This behavior might seem maladaptive after all, every mouthful given to another species is one that you cannot eat but in this heartening new study, acclaimed anthropologist Pat Shipman reveals that our propensity to domesticate and care for other animals is in fact among our species' greatest strengths. For the last 2.6 million years, Shipman explains, humans who coexisted with animals enjoyed definite adaptive and cultural advantages. To illustrate this point, Shipman gives us a tour of the milestones in human civilization-from agriculture to art and even language and describes how we reached each stage through our unique relationship with other animals. The Animal Connection reaffirms our love of animals as something both innate and distinctly human, revealing that the process of domestication not only changed animals but had a resounding impact on us as well.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pat Shipman is a professor of anthropology at Penn State University. Coauthor of the award-winning The Ape in the Tree and author of The Animal Connection and The Invaders, she writes for American Scientist and lives in Moncure, North Carolina.

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393070549
ISBN 13 
9780393070545
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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