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Tales of the Ex-Apes : How We Think about Human Evolution / Jonathan Marks.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marks, Jonathan (Jonathan M.), 1955- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human evolution.
- Social evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins-the study of evolution-and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates human evolution within a general anthropological framework and presents it as a special case of kinship and mythology. Tales of the Ex-Apes argues that human evolution has incorporated the emergence of social relations and cultural histories that are unprecedented in the apes and thus cannot be reduced to purely biological properties and processes. Marks shows that human evolution has involved the transformation from biological to biocultural evolution. Over tens of thousands of years, new social roles-notably spouse, father, in-laws, and grandparents-have co-evolved with new technologies and symbolic meanings to produce the human species, in the absence of significant biological evolution. We are biocultural creatures, Marks argues, fully comprehensible by recourse to neither our real ape ancestry nor our imaginary cultureless biology.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One. Science
- Chapter Two. History and Morality
- Chapter Three. Evolutionary Concepts
- Chapter Four. How to Think about Evolution Non-reductively
- Chapter Five. How Our Ancestors Transgressed the Boundaries of Apehood
- Chapter Six. Human Evolution as Bio-cultural Evolution
- Chapter Seven. Human Nature/Culture
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520961197
- 0520961196
- OCLC:
- 914151149
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