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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259101
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- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) :illustrations.
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The techno-human condition
A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295666
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- 1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution, Gender, and Rape
"A Bradford book."Multidisciplinary critiques of the notion of rape as an evolutionary adaptation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285155
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- 1 online resource (vi, 454 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach
Laying foundations for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of evolution in communication systems with tools from evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling.The search for origins of communication in a wide variety of species including humans is rapidly becoming a thoroughly interdisci…
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- 9780262281010
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- 1 online resource (x, 338 pages) :illustrations.
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Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity
"This book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted: the importance of the hand in everything we do. Drawing on evolutionary biology, anatomy, archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, among other disciplines, McGinn examines the role of the hand in shaping human evolution…
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- 9780262331043
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- 1 online resource (ix, 191 pages)
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A natural history of rape :biological bases of sexual coercion
"In this sure-to-be-controversial book, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer use evolutionary biology to explain the causes of rape and to recommend new approaches to its prevention. According to Thornhill and Palmer, evolved adaptation of some sort gives rise to rape; the main evolutionary question is whether rape is an adaptation itself or a by-product of other adaptations." "The book includes a …
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- 0585082006
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages)
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Rethinking Human Evolution
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom rather than theory and methodology, with each new fossil or molecular analysis interpreted as supporting evidence for the presumed lineage of human ancestry. We might wonder why …
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- 9780262344180
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From signal to symbol :the evolution of language
"An original argument to explain the "language gap" between humans and other primates, drawing on research from evolutionary biology, paleobiology, and archaeology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262366038
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Inequality :a genetic history
"New genomic studies on ancient remains are unveiling different forms of inequality that were prevalent in the past and have shaped the genomes of humankind"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369176
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Birdsong, speech, and language :exploring the evolution of mind and brain
Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In this book, leading scholars draw on the latest research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the biology of human speech and language and the consequences for evolutionary biology. They examine the cognitive and neural similarities between birdsong learning and speech and language acquis…
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