یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
Not by brains alone: the vital role of culture in human adaptation -- Beyond kith and kin: culture and the scale of human cooperation -- Comments -- Imitation, Hayek, and the significance of cultural learning / H. Allen Orr -- Adaptation without insight? / Kim Sterelny -- Inference and hypothesis testing in cultural evolution / Ruth Mace -- Adaptable, cooperative, manipulative, and rivalrous -- Response: Robert Boyd's reply to the commentators.
بدون عنوان
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یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman 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 H. Allen Orr, philosopher Kim Sterelny, economist Paul Seabright, and evolutionary anthropologist Ruth Mace, as well as an introduction by Stephen Macedo.
یادداشتهای مربوط به سفارشات
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
JSTOR
شماره انبار
22573/ctvc65qc3
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
عنوان
Different kind of animal.
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
9780691177731
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Human evolution.
موضوع مستند نشده
Social evolution.
موضوع مستند نشده
Human evolution.
موضوع مستند نشده
PSYCHOLOGY-- Cognitive Psychology.
موضوع مستند نشده
Social evolution.
موضوع مستند نشده
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
مقوله موضوعی
موضوع مستند نشده
PSY-- 008000
موضوع مستند نشده
SCI-- 008000
موضوع مستند نشده
SCI-- 027000
موضوع مستند نشده
SCI-- 090000
موضوع مستند نشده
SCI-- 100000
موضوع مستند نشده
SOC-- 000000
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
303
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4
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
GN360
نشانه اثر
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B685
2018eb
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