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Darwin's Unfinished Symphony - How Culture Made the Human Mind (Hardcover)
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Darwin's Unfinished Symphony - How Culture Made the Human Mind (Hardcover)
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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.
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