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Tales of the Ex-Apes - How We Think about Human Evolution (Paperback)
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Tales of the Ex-Apes - How We Think about Human Evolution (Paperback)
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What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With
his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks
explores our scientific narrative of human origins-the study of
evolution-and examines its cultural elements and theoretical
foundations. In the process, he situates human evolution within a
general anthropological framework and presents it as a special case
of kinship and mythology. Tales of the Ex-Apes argues that human
evolution has incorporated the emergence of social relations and
cultural histories that are unprecedented in the apes and thus
cannot be reduced to purely biological properties and processes.
Marks shows that human evolution has involved the transformation
from biological to biocultural evolution. Over tens of thousands of
years, new social roles-notably spouse, father, in-laws, and
grandparents-have co-evolved with new technologies and symbolic
meanings to produce the human species, in the absence of
significant biological evolution. We are biocultural creatures,
Marks argues, fully comprehensible by recourse to neither our real
ape ancestry nor our imaginary cultureless biology.
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