Author: Eugene Linden
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN:
Category : Animal communication
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: Eugene Linden
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345342348
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Earnest Albert Hooton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: Björn Kurtén
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231058155
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Kurten challenges the idea that man descended from apes and suggest instead that the ancestry of man and that of apes have been separate for more than 35 million years.
Author: Russell H. Tuttle
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674073169
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1089
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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.
Author: Stanley L. Jaki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977482634
Category : Creative ability in science
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Author: M. Bowden
Publisher: Master Books
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Author: Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Richard W. Wrangham
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395877432
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can be done about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, "Demonic Males" offers some startling new answers to these questions.
Author: Kathleen Rita Gibson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521485418
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Looks at how humans have evolved complex behaviours such as language and culture.