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Boyd, Robert, (1948-)

A different kind of animal : = how culture transformed our species /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A different kind of animal :/ Robert Boyd.
Reminder of title:	how culture transformed our species /
Author:	Boyd, Robert,
Description:	1 online resource (242 p.)
Subject:	Social evolution. -
Online resource:	https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/PUPB0006122.html
ISBN:	0691177732

A different kind of animal : = how culture transformed our species /
Boyd, Robert,1948-

A different kind of animal :how culture transformed our species /Robert Boyd. - 1 online resource (242 p.) - The University Center for Human Values. - The University Center for Human Values..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A different kind of animal : how culture transformed our species -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Not by Brains Alone: The Vital Role of Culture in Human Adaptation -- Chapter 2: Beyond Kith and Kin: Culture and the Scale of Human Cooperation -- Comments -- Chapter 3: Imitation, Hayek, and the Significance of Cultural Learning -- Chapter 4: Adaptation without Insight? -- Chapter 5: Inference and Hypothesis Testing in Cultural Evolution -- Chapter 6: Adaptable, Cooperative, Manipulative, and Rivalrous -- Response -- Chapter 7: Culture, Beliefs, and Decisions -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

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Not by brains alone: the vital role of culture in human adaptation -- Beyond kith and kin: culture and the scale of human cooperation -- Comments -- Imitation, Hayek, and the significance of cultural learning / H. Allen Orr -- Adaptation without insight? / Kim Sterelny -- Inference and hypothesis testing in cultural evolution / Ruth Mace -- Adaptable, cooperative, manipulative, and rivalrous -- Response: Robert Boyd's reply to the commentators

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 0691177732Subjects--Topical Terms:

574887
Social evolution.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GN360

Dewey Class. No.: 303.4

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