What makes us human?

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Pasternak Charles A.; (Charles Alexander)
Published: Oneworld,
Publisher Address: Oxford
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xxvii, 212 p.: ill. ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 9781851685196 (pbk.)
1851685197 (pbk.)
Index Number: B089
CLC: B089.3
Call Number: B089.3/W555
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Imitation makes us human / Susan Blackmore -- Memory, time, and language / Michael Corballis, Thomas Suddendorf -- Why are humans not just great apes? / Robin Dunbar -- The hominid that talked / Maurizio Gentilucci, Michael Corballis -- Half ape, half angel? / the Rt. Reverend Richard Harries -- Material facts from a nonmaterialist perspective / David Hulme -- What makes us human? Our ancestors and the weather / Stephen Oppenheimer -- Curiosity and quest / Charles Pasternak -- Human evolution and the human condition / Ian Tattersall -- The place of "deep social mind" in the evolution of human nature / Andrew Whiten -- Causal belief makes us human / Lewis Wolpert -- The cooking enigma / Richard Wrangham.