| Description |
xxvii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Philosophical anthropology.
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Philosophical anthropology. |
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Human behavior.
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Human behavior. |
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Human beings.
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Human beings. |
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Cognition.
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Cognition. |
| Added Author |
Pasternak, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)
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| ISBN |
9781851685196 paperback |
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1851685197 paperback |
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