Culture and the Course of Human Evolution / Gary Tomlinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomlinson, Gary, author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human evolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes from their first arrival, so quickly develop the capacities to transform their world? Gary Tomlinson's Culture and the Course of Human Evolution is aimed at both scientists and humanists, and it makes the case that neither side alone can answer the most important questions about our origins. Tomlinson offers a new model for understanding this period in our emergence, one based on analysis of advancing human cultures in an evolution that was simultaneously cultural and biological-a biocultural evolution. He places front and center the emergence of culture and the human capacities to create it, in a fashion that expands the conceptual framework of recent evolutionary theory. His wide-ranging vision encompasses arguments on the development of music, modern technology, and metaphysics. At the heart of these developments, he shows, are transformations in our species' particular knack for signmaking. With its innovative synthesis of humanistic and scientific ideas, this book will be an essential text.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Consequence of Feedback I: Coevolution

Chapter 3. The Consequence of Feedback II: Niche Construction and Culture

Chapter 4. Hominin Culture from the Bottom Up

Chapter 5. Systematic and Emergent Culture

Chapter 6. The First 150,000 Years of Homo sapiens

Chapter 7. The Gathering of Modernity

Acknowledgments

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226548661

022654866X

OCLC:

1034527125