Ape that Understood the Universe - How the Mind and Culture Evolve Stewart-Williams Steve University of Nottingham Pevná vazba
Ape that Understood the Universe - How the Mind and Culture Evolve Stewart-Williams Steve University of Nottingham Pevná vazba The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest…
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Ape that Understood the Universe - How the Mind and Culture Evolve Stewart-Williams Steve University of Nottingham Pevná vazba
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, our languages, and science? It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species?
The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right.
This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting