Description: NOT BY GENES ALONE:HOW CULTURE TRANSFORMED HUMAN EVOLUTION Peter J Richerson and Robert Boyd Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion. Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economics—and building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry them—Richerson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature. Like new condition, no marks, tight spine 15.2 x 22.6 x .8cm, 16, indexed, 332 pp mb
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Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Features: 1st Edition
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 342 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Not by Genes Alone : How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Life Sciences / Evolution, Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2006
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, Science, Psychology
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
