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A foot in the river : why our lives change - and the limits of evolution /
We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live - o...
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2015.
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| 505 | 0 | |a COVER; A FOOT IN THE RIVER: WHY OUR LIVES CHANGE-AND THE LIMITS OF EVOLUTION; COPYRIGHT; EPIGRAPH; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: THE WEIRD PLANET; 1: CHALLENGING CHANGE: Thinkers' confrontations with the problem, from antiquity to modernity; 2: THE FRUSTRATION OF SCIENCE: The nineteenth-century struggle to restore nature to culture; 3: THE GREAT RECONVERGENCE: Restoring biology to history; 4: THE CHIMPANZEES' TEA PARTY: The discovery of non-human cultures; 5: THE LIMITS OF EVOLUTION: Why evolutionary theory fails to match historical reality. | |
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