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The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution

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Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution - Sterelny, Kim
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In this book, Kim Sterelny builds on his original account of the evolutionary development and interaction of human culture and cooperation, which he first presented in The Evolved Apprentice (2012). Sterelny sees human evolution not as hinging on a single key innovation, but as emerging from a positive feedback loop caused by smaller divergences from other great apes, including bipedal locomotion, better causal and social reasoning, reproductive cooperation, and changes in diet and foraging style. He advances this ...

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Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution 2021, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780197531389

Hardcover