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A different kind of animal : how culture transformed our species
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Title
A different kind of animal : how culture transformed our species / Robert Boyd.
ISBN
9780691177731
0691177732
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Physical Description
viii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes
"Based on the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University"--Book jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 18, 2017
Series
The University Center for Human Values series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-222) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Stephen Macedo
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. Culture, beliefs, and decisions.
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