Culture and the Direction of Human Evolution
Author : Stanley Marion Garn
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Page : 99 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Stanley Marion Garn
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Page : 99 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Symposium on Culture and the Direction of Human Evolution, Philadelphia, 1962
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Evolution
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Author : Symposium on Culture and the Direction of Human Evol
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Page : 103 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
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ISBN : 9780783737928
Author : Stanley M. Garn
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Evolution
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Author : symposium
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : American Association for the Advancement of Science. Section on Anthropology
Publisher : Detroit, Wayne State U. P
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Science
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Author : Gregory F. Tague
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004319484
Evolution and Human Culture argues that values, beliefs, and practices are expressions of individual and shared moral sentiments. Much of our cultural production stems from what in early hominins was a caring tendency, both the care to share and a self-care to challenge others. Topics cover prehistory, mind, biology, morality, comparative primatology, art, and aesthetics. The book is valuable to students and scholars in the arts, including moral philosophers, who would benefit from reading about scientific developments that impact their fields. For biologists and social scientists the book provides a window into how scientific research contributes to understanding the arts and humanities. The take-home point is that culture does not transcend nature; rather, culture is an evolved moral behavior.
Author : Richard G. Klein
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0470250712
A bold new theory on what sparked the "big bang" of human culture The abrupt emergence of human culture over a stunningly short period continues to be one of the great enigmas of human evolution. This compelling book introduces a bold new theory on this unsolved mystery. Author Richard Klein reexamines the archaeological evidence and brings in new discoveries in the study of the human brain. These studies detail the changes that enabled humans to think and behave in far more sophisticated ways than before, resulting in the incredibly rapid evolution of new skills. Richard Klein has been described as "the premier anthropologist in the country today" by Evolutionary Anthropology. Here, he and coauthor Blake Edgar shed new light on the full story of a truly fascinating period of evolution. Richard G. Klein, PhD (Palo Alto, CA), is a Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of the definitive academic book on the subject of the origins of human culture, The Human Career. Blake Edgar (San Francisco, CA) is the coauthor of the very successful From Lucy to Language, with Dr. Donald Johanson. He has written extensively for Discover, GEO, and numerous other magazines.
Author : Theodosius Dobzhansky
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9780231056328
Author : Peter J. Richerson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226712133
Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammal's. In this stunning exploration of human adaptation, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that only a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can explain these unique characteristics. Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion. Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economics—and building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry them—Richerson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature. In abandoning the nature-versus-nurture debate as fundamentally misconceived, Not by Genes Alone is a truly original and groundbreaking theory of the role of culture in evolution and a book to be reckoned with for generations to come. “I continue to be surprised by the number of educated people (many of them biologists) who think that offering explanations for human behavior in terms of culture somehow disproves the suggestion that human behavior can be explained in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Fortunately, we now have a book to which they may be directed for enlightenment . . . . It is a book full of good sense and the kinds of intellectual rigor and clarity of writing that we have come to expect from the Boyd/Richerson stable.”—Robin Dunbar, Nature “Not by Genes Alone is a valuable and very readable synthesis of a still embryonic but very important subject straddling the sciences and humanities.”—E. O. Wilson, Harvard University