Culture and the Course of Human Evolution /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tomlinson, Gary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Temas:
Human evolution.
HISTORY / General.
Paleolithic humans.
biocultural evolution.
cultural systems.
emergence.
evolutionary theory.
hominins.
niche construction.
semiotics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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