The evolved apprentice: how evolution made humans unique

Kim Sterelny develops a novel account of the speed and extent of human evolutionary divergence from the great ape stock. The book does not explain human uniqueness by positing a critical adaptive breakthrough (episodic memory; advanced theory of mind; planning and causal reasoning; language). Rather...

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Beteilige Person: Sterelny, Kim
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press [2012]
Schriftenreihe:The Jean Nicod lectures 2012
Links:https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262016797.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy
Zusammenfassung:Kim Sterelny develops a novel account of the speed and extent of human evolutionary divergence from the great ape stock. The book does not explain human uniqueness by positing a critical adaptive breakthrough (episodic memory; advanced theory of mind; planning and causal reasoning; language). Rather, it identifies a series of positive feedback loops between initially minor advances in social tolerance, ecological flexibility, cooperative foraging, social learning, and links the results of these feedback loops to the archaeological and anthropological record.
Beschreibung:"A Bradford book."
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 242 Seiten)
ISBN:0262302810
9780262302814