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A different kind of animal : how culture transformed our species /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyd, Robert, 1948- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Series:University Center for Human Values series.
Subjects:
Social evolution.
Human evolution.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Response: Robert Boyd's reply to the commentators.