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090 $a臺南市立圖書館
100 1 $aBoyd, Robert,$d1948-
245 12$aA different kind of animal :$bhow culture transformed our species /$cRobert Boyd.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2018.
300 $aviii, 229 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
490 1 $aThe University Center for Human Values series
500 $a"Based on the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University"--Book jacket.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-222) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / 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 / PaulSeabright -- Response. Culture, beliefs, and decisions.
520 $a"Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability--people are just smarter than all the rest. But in this compelling book, Robert Boyd argues that culture--our ability to learn from each other--has been the essential ingredient of our remarkable success. A Different Kind of Animal demonstrates that while people are smart,we are not nearly smart enough to have solved the vast array of problems that confronted our species as it spread across the globe. Over the past two million years, culture has evolved to enable human populations to accumulate superb local adaptations that no individual could ever have invented on their own. It has also made possible the evolution of social norms that allow humans to make common cause with large groups of unrelated individuals, a kind of society not seen anywhere else in nature. This unique combination of cultural adaptation and large-scale cooperation has transformed our species and assured our survival--making us the different kind of animal we are today. Based on the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, A Different Kind of Animal features challenging responses by biologist H. Allen Orr, philosopher Kim Sterelny, economist Paul Seabright, and evolutionary anthropologist Ruth Mace, as well as an introduction by Stephen Macedo."--$cBook jacket.
650 0$aSocial evolution.
650 0$aHuman evolution.
653 $a科技創新
653 $a知識性
830 0$aUniversity Center for Human Values series.