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The Ape that Understood the Universe How the Mind and Culture Evolve

Paperback • 2019 • English

The Ape that Understood the Universe How the Mind and Culture Evolve

By Steve Stewart-Williams

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About the book

The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our altruistic tendencies, and our culture? The book tackles these issues by drawing on two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we ...Show more

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9781108732758

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

The Ape that Understood the Universe How the Mind and Culture Evolve

Format

Paperback

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