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Title: A Different Kind of Animal
Condition: New
Subtitle: How Culture Transformed Our Species
Author: Robert Boyd
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0691195900
EAN: 9780691195902
ISBN: 9780691195902
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Society & Culture, Language & Reference
Release Date: 19/11/2019
Description:

How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species

Human beings have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability—people are just smarter than all the rest. But Robert Boyd argues that culture—our ability to learn from each other—has been the essential ingredient of our remarkable success. He shows how a 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 H. 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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