wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Question of Animal Culture
ISBN: 9780674031265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Fifty years ago, a troop of Japanese macaques was observed washing sandy sweet potatoes in a stream, sending ripples through the fields of ethology, comparative psychology, and cultural anthropology. The issue of animal culture has been hotly debated ever since. Now Kevin Laland and Bennett Galef have gathered key voices in the often rancorous debate to summarize the views along the continuum from "Culture? Of course " to "Culture? Of course not " The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the validity of animal culture, and what it might say about our own.
Fifty years ago, a troop of Japanese macaques was observed washing sandy sweet potatoes in a stream, sending ripples through the fields of ethology, c...
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360,09 zł |
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour
ISBN: 9780199586967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this exercise is at the centre of a heated controversy that has raged for over a century. Many evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and psychologists are optimistic that evolutionary principles can be applied to human behaviour, and have offered evolutionary explanations for a wide range of human characteristics, such as homicide, religion and sex differences in behaviour. Others are sceptical of these...
Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret hu...
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225,79 zł |
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
ISBN: 9780691151182 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. How culture transformed human evolution Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and language to science and technology. How did the human mind--and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture--evolve 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 others--it is also the key driving... How culture transformed human evolution Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and language t... |
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210,67 zł |
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
ISBN: 9780691182810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mind-and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture-evolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin's Unfinished Symphony presents a captivating new theory of human cognitive evolution. This compelling an
Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mind-and the uniquel...
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110,88 zł |
Social Information Transmission and Human Biology
ISBN: 9780849340475 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Recent research has emphasized that socially transmitted information may affect both the gene pool and the phenotypes of individuals and populations, and that an improved understanding of evolutionary issues is beneficial to those working towards the improvement of human health. Equally, an improved awareness of how human behavior influences health and reproductive fitness is starting to shed new light on the processes that shape the evolution of human behavior and the human mind.
Focusing directly on these emerging trends, Social Information Transmission and Human Biology bridges... Recent research has emphasized that socially transmitted information may affect both the gene pool and the phenotypes of individuals and populations, ...
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790,02 zł |