Darwin's Unfinished Symphony (eBook)

How Culture Made the Human Mind

Kevin N. Lala (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
464 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18447-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mindand the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit cultureevolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin's Unfinished Symphony presents a captivating new theory of human cognitive evolution. This compelling and accessible book reveals how culture is not just the magnificent end product of an evolutionary process that produced a species unlike all othersit is also the key driving force behind that process. Kevin N. Lala tells the story of the painstaking fieldwork, the key experiments, the false leads, and the stunning scientific breakthroughs that led to this new understanding of how culture transformed human evolution. It is the story of how Darwin's intellectual descendants picked up where he left off and took up the challenge of providing a scientific account of the evolution of the human mind.

Autor

Kevin N. Laland is professor of behavioral and evolutionary biology at the University of St Andrews.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.9.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Schlagworte: Acheulean • Adaptation • Adaptive Evolution • Adult • Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Allan Wilson • Allele • alleles • anatomy • animal creativity • animal innovation • animals • anthropologist • Arts • asocial learning • Ballet • Behavior • behavioral development • behavioral differences • behavioral diversity • Behavioral modernity • Biological Evolution • biologist • brain evolution • brain size • capuchin monkey • capuchin monkeys • Charles Darwin • children • Chimpanzee • Chimpanzees • Coevolution • Cognition • Cognitive skill • Communication Systems • Competition • Computation • Cooperation • cooperative mechanisms • Cooperativeness • copying • courtship • cultural activities • cultural drive • Cultural Evolution • Cultural Intelligence • Cultural Learning • cultural lineages • cultural practices • cultural processes • Cultural Production • Culture • Cultures • cumulative culture • Dance • domestication • early language • Ecology • Emergence • Environmental change • Ethology • Evolution • evolutionary biology • evolutionary feedback • Evolution of human intelligence • evolved psychology • Experiment • experimental data • Experimental investigation • Experimental research • Explanation • Fish behavior • flexible model system • foraging • Gene • gene–culture coevolution • gene variants • high-fidelity transmission • Hominini • honey bee • Human Achievement • human behavior • human civilization • human cognitive evolution • human culture • Human Evolution • Human Genes • Human Innovation • human intellect • Human Mind • Human society • hunter-gatherer society • Imitation • Indication (medicine) • Infant • insect • Japanese macaque • John Templeton Foundation • knapping • language • language evolution • language evolution theories • language generality • large-scale cooperation • learning • Life history • Longevity • Macaque • Mammal • Mathematical Modeling • Mitochondrial DNA • Morality • Natural selection • Neocortex • new behavior patterns • New Caledonian crow • Niche construction • novel techniques • Observation • observational learning • Oldowan • Orangutan • organism • Origin of language • Postdoctoral researcher • predation • Prediction • Prevalence • Primate cognition • Probability • psychologist • Psychology • puzzle box • Ratcheting • reason • Reinforcement • Reproductive success • Requirement • result • scientific community • Scientist • sexual behavior • Simulation • Social Intelligence • social learning • Social learning (social pedagogy) • Social Learning Theory • Social Life • Sociocultural evolution • Statistics • Stickleback • sticklebacks • Stone tool • Suggestion • sweet potato • Teaching • Technology • Termite • Thought • Tradition • Trait Theory • transmission fidelity • transmitted behavior • Trial and Error • uniqueness • vocal learning • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18447-X / 069118447X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18447-0 / 9780691184470