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A different kind of animal : how culture transformed our species /

How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyd, Robert, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Colección:University Center for Human Values series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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: Robert Boyd's reply to the commentators.