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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
248
Utgivningsdatum
2017-11-07
Förlag
Princeton University Press
Originalspråk
English
Illustratör/Fotograf
5 b&w, 21 line illus
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5 halftones. 21 line illus. 1 table.
Dimensioner
218 x 147 x 28 mm
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454 g
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1
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,
ISBN
9780691177731

A Different Kind of Animal

How Culture Transformed Our Species

av Robert Boyd
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How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability--people are just smarter than all the rest. But in this compelling book, Robert Boyd argues that culture--our ability to learn from each other--has been the essential ingredient of our remarkable success. A Different Kind of Animal demonstrates that while people are smart, we are not nearly smart enough to have solved the vast array of problems that confronted our species as it spread across the globe. Over the past two million years, culture has evolved to enable human populations to accumulate superb local adaptations that no individual could ever have invented on their own. It has also made possible the evolution of social norms that allow humans to make common cause with large groups of unrelated individuals, a kind of society not seen anywhere else in nature. This unique combination of cultural adaptation and large-scale cooperation has transformed our species and assured our survival--making us the different kind of animal we are today. Based on the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, A Different Kind of Animal features challenging responses by biologist Allen Orr, philosopher Kim Sterelny, economist Paul Seabright, and evolutionary anthropologist Ruth Mace, as well as an introduction by Stephen Macedo.
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"Boyd is at his best when he explains how norm construction occurs and how cultural transmission of complicated information can spread throughout a group. The work is thought-provoking." * Publishers Weekly * "In this lucid, well-argued treatise, anthropologist Robert Boyd avers that we are 'culture-saturated creatures', and that it is culturally transmitted knowledge that sets us apart and explains our dramatic range of behaviours, from rampant violence to great feats of cooperation."---Barbara Kiser, Nature "A Different Kind of Animal is a fascinating introduction to a fertile field of cultural research that should be better-known. Approachable and clearly argued, it is a brave revival of the autonomy of culture and a breath of fresh air for those tired of the narrow claims of evolutionary psychology." * Cosmos * "Boyds latest book is a clear exposition of his cultural evolutionary view of human evolution."---Thomas J.H. Morgan, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

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Robert Boyd is Origins Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. His books include How Humans Evolved, Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, and The Origin and Evolution of Cultures. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Acknowledgments vii Introduction Stephen Macedo 1 1 Not by Brains Alone: The Vital Role of Culture in Human Adaptation 9 2 Beyond Kith and Kin: Culture and the Scale of Human Cooperation 63 COMMENTS 3 Imitation, Hayek, and the Significance of Cultural Learning 125 H. Allen Orr 4 Adaptation without Insight? 135 Kim Sterelny 5 Inference and Hypothesis Testing in Cultural Evolution 152 Ruth Mace 6 Adaptable, Cooperative, Manipulative, and Rivalrous 160 Paul Seabright RESPONSE 7 Culture, Beliefs, and Decisions 173 Notes 197 References 207 Contributors 223 Index 225

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