A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed our Species [Audiobook] download free by Robert Boyd
- Listen audiobook: A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed our Species
- Author: Robert Boyd
- Release date: 2018/8/29
- Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780691177731
- Rating: 8.99 of 10
- Votes: 313
- Review by: Erin Foy
- Review rating: 8.93 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/12
- Duration: 3H9M47S in 256 kbps (49.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Apple Lossless, MP3, FLAC, ATRAC, WMA, TTA, MPEG4, WAV (compression LZO, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, GZ)
- Total pages original book: 248
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M9S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability-people are just smarter than all the rest. But in this compelling book, Robert Boyd argues that culture-our ability to learn from each other-has been the essential ingredient of our remarkable success. A Different Kind of Animal demonstrates that while people are smart, we are not nearly smart enough to have solved the vast array of problems that confronted our species as it spread across the globe. Over the past two million years, culture has evolved to enable human populations to accumulate superb local adaptations that no individual could ever have invented on their own. It has also made possible the evolution of social norms that allow humans to make common cause with large groups of unrelated individuals, a kind of society not seen anywhere else in nature.This unique combination of cultural adaptation and large-scale cooperation has transformed our species and assured our survival-making us the different kind of animal we are today. Based on the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, A Different Kind of Animal features challenging responses by biologist Allen Orr, philosopher Kim Sterelny, economist Paul Seabright, and evolutionary anthropologist Ruth Mace, as well as an introduction by Stephen Macedo.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Earth: Natural History General, Society & Culture: General, Cognition & Cognitive Psychology, Biology, Life Sciences, Evolution, Neurosciences
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 28.97 USD
- Dimensions: 147.32x218.44x27.94mm
- Weight: 454g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New Jersey, United States
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