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Apes and Human Evolution (Hardcover)
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Apes and Human Evolution (Hardcover)
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In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research
literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes
and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans
became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct
from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential
theory that men are essentially killer apes--sophisticated but
instinctively aggressive and destructive beings. Situating humans
in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from
morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early
primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright,
how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else
happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their
closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos,
chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in
occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on
symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit
behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of
human culture--speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures,
and moral codes--are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape
niches. This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in
primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to
be discovered about human and ape potential.
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