The Chosen Primate : human nature and cultural diversity
By - Kuper, Adam
Floor
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Floor 1
Published
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Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1994
ISBN 13 - 9780674128255
Book Status
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1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Cultural Evolution
Shelf No
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13
Call Number
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301 KUP
Physical Description
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xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
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includes index
We are all Darwinians now. Yet while we know that five million years ago our ancestors were much like chimpanzees, we still can't say why we, of all primates, became human. Is there a Darwinian explanation for how Homo sapiens evolved? Or has human culture made us so very different from other animals that we require a distinctive strategy to explain our development? These questions, at the heart of the great debate on human origins and the history of human culture, are the focus of The Chosen Primate, a fundamental rethinking of the pursuits of anthropology