What makes us human?
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Oneworld,
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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. |