『人間性の進化的起源:なぜヒトだけが複雑な文化を創造できたのか』(原書)<br>Darwin's Unfinished Symphony : How Culture Made the Human Mind

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『人間性の進化的起源:なぜヒトだけが複雑な文化を創造できたのか』(原書)
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony : How Culture Made the Human Mind

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 464 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780691151182
  • DDC分類 576.8

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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 force behind that process. Kevin Laland shows how the learned and socially transmitted activities of our ancestors shaped our intellects through accelerating cycles of evolutionary feedback. The truly unique characteristics of our species--such as our intelligence, language, teaching, and cooperation--are not adaptive responses to predators, disease, or other external conditions. Rather, humans are creatures of their own making. Drawing on his own groundbreaking research, and bringing it to life with vivid natural history, Laland explains how animals imitate, innovate, and have remarkable traditions of their own.
He traces our rise from scavenger apes in prehistory to modern humans able to design iPhones, dance the tango, and send astronauts into space. This book tells the story of the painstaking fieldwork, the key experiments, the false leads, and the stunning scientific breakthroughs that led to this new understanding of how culture transformed human evolution. It is the story of how Darwin's intellectual descendants picked up where he left off and took up the challenge of providing a scientific account of the evolution of the human mind.

Contents

Foreword ix Part I: Foundations of Culture 1 Darwin's Unfinished Symphony 1 2 Ubiquitous Copying 31 3 Why Copy? 50 4 A Tale of Two Fishes 77 5 The Roots of Creativity 99 Part II: The Evolution of the Mind 6 The Evolution of Intelligence 123 7 High Fidelity 150 8 Why We Alone Have Language 175 9 Gene-Culture Coevolution 208 10 The Dawn of Civilization 234 11 Foundations of Cooperation 264 12 The Arts 283 Epilogue: Awe Without Wonder 315 Notes 323 References 385 Index 443

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