The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique - Couverture souple

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Sterelny, Kim

 
9780262526661: The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique
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ISBN 10 : 0262526662 ISBN 13 : 9780262526661
Editeur : MIT Press, 2014

Synopsis

A new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the role of information sharing across generations.

Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual behavior, and foraging patterns have all shifted sharply away from those of the other great apes. In The Evolved Apprentice, Kim Sterelny argues that the divergence stems from the fact that humans gradually came to enrich the learning environment of the next generation. Humans came to cooperate in sharing information, and to cooperate ecologically and reproductively as well, and these changes initiated positive feedback loops that drove us further from other great apes.

Sterelny develops a new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the gradual evolution of information-sharing practices across generations and how these practices transformed human minds and social lives. Sterelny proposes that humans developed a new form of ecological interaction with their environment, cooperative foraging. The ability to cope with the immense variety of human ancestral environments and social forms, he argues, depended not just on adapted minds but also on adapted developmental environments.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. His books include Language and Reality (with Michael Devitt; second edition, MIT Press).

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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262526662
ISBN 13 
9780262526661
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
258
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9780262016797: The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique

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ISBN 10 :  0262016796 ISBN 13 :  9780262016797
Editeur : Bradford Books, 2012
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