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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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