Publication

2017 - Princeton University Press, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

112,500 words, Guess

Page Count

450 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100691151180
  • ISBN-139780691151182
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016944396
  • OCLC Control Number958799685
  • Better World Books9780691151182
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC599.938
  • LCCGN360 .L34 2017

Description

"Kevin Leland shows how the learned and socially transmitted activities of our ancestors shaped our intellects through accelerating cycles of evolutionary feedback. The truly unique characteristics of our species - such as our intelligence, language, teaching, and cooperation - are not adaptive responses to predators or disease, or other external conditions. Rather, humans are creatures of their own making. ... Laland explains how how animals imitate, innovate, and have remarkable traditions of their own. He traces our rise from scavenger apes in prehistory to modern humans able to design iPhones, dance the tango, and send astronauts into space."--Book jacket.

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Other Editions

  • Darwin's unfinished symphony: how culture made the human mindPrinceton University Press2017-01-01

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