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A different kind of animal : how culture transformed our species / Robert Boyd.

Penn Museum Library GN360 .B685 2018
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Boyd, Robert, 1948- author.
Series:
University Center for Human Values series
The University Center for Human Values series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social evolution.
Human evolution.
Physical Description:
viii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Contents:
Introduction / Stephen Macedo
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. Culture, beliefs, and decisions.
Notes:
"Based on the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University"--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-222) and index.
ISBN:
9780691177731
0691177732
OCLC:
983824590

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