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Author : Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758100191
Author : Theodosius Dobzhansky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UCAL:$B651884
Examines both the biological and the cultural aspects of human evolution.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637101327
Author : Theodosius Dobzhansky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Evolution
ISBN : OCLC:1089496069
Author : Theodosius Dobzhansky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Evolution
ISBN : OCLC:43016184
Author : Scott Solomon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300208719
"Evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent years to examine the future evolution of our species. Combining knowledge of our past with current trends, Solomon offers convincing evidence that evolutionary forces still affect us today. But how will modernization--including longer lifespans, changing diets, global travel, and widespread use of medicine and contraceptives--affect our evolutionary future?" --publisher description.
Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300240399
A theory of human evolution and history based on ever-increasing mutual dependency between humans and things In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and the newer one of a directionless process of natural selection. Instead, he proposes a theory of human evolution and history based on “entanglement,” the ever-increasing mutual dependency between humans and things. Not only do humans become dependent on things, Hodder asserts, but things become dependent on humans, requiring an endless succession of new innovations. It is this mutual dependency that creates the dominant trend in both cultural and genetic evolution. He selects a small number of cases, ranging in significance from the invention of the wheel down to Christmas tree lights, to show how entanglement has created webs of human-thing dependency that encircle the world and limit our responses to global crises.
Author : Brian Hare,Vanessa Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780399590665
A powerful, counterintuitive new theory of human nature arguing that our evolutionary success depends on our ability to be friendly--from a pair of trailblazing scientists and New York Times bestselling authors. For most of the approximately 200,000 years that our species has existed, we shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. They were smart, they were strong, and they were inventive. Neanderthals even had the capacity for spoken language. But, one by one, our hominid relatives went extinct. Why did we thrive? In delightfully conversational prose and based on years of his own original research, Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, and his wife Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, offer a powerful, elegant new theory called "self-domestication" which suggests that we have succeeded not because we were the smartest or strongest but because we are the friendliest. This explanation flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Since Charles Darwin wrote about "evolutionary fitness," scientists have confused fitness with strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. But what helped us innovate where other primates did not is our knack for coordinating with and listening to others. We can find common cause and identity with both neighbors and strangers if we see them as "one of us." This ability makes us geniuses at cooperation and innovation and is responsible for all the glories of culture and technology in human history. But this gift for friendliness comes at cost. If we perceive that someone is not "one of us," we are capable of unplugging them from our mental network. Where there would have been empathy and compassion, there is nothing, making us both the most tolerant and the most merciless species on the planet. To counteract the rise of tribalism in all aspects of modern life, Hare and Woods argue, we need to expand our empathy and friendliness to include people who aren't obviously like ourselves. Brian Hare's groundbreaking research was developed in close collaboration with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution. Survival of the Friendliest explains both our evolutionary success and our potential for cruelty in one stroke and sheds new light onto everything from genocide and structural inequality to art and innovation.
Author : Gaia Vince
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465094912
In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species "A wondrous, visionary work." --Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather Makers What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time. She explains how, through four key elements -- fire, language, beauty, and time -- our species diverged from the evolutionary path of all other animals, unleashing a compounding process that launched us into the Space Age and beyond. Provocative and poetic, Transcendence shows how a primate took dominion over nature and turned itself into something marvelous.
Author : National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : Sackler Colloquium
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015073872999
The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Each year, four or five such colloquia are scheduled, typically two days in length and international in scope. Colloquia are organized by a member of the Academy, often with the assistance of an organizing committee, and feature presentations by leading scientists in the field and discussions with a hundred or more researchers with an interest in the topic. Colloquia presentations are recorded and posted on the National Academy of Sciences Sackler colloquia website and published on CD-ROM. These Colloquia are made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Jill Sackler, in memory of her husband, Arthur M. Sackler.
Author : Juan Enriquez,Steve Gullans
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780143108344
An eye-opening, mind-bending exploration of how mankind is reshaping its genetic future, based on the viral TED Talk series “Will Our Kids Be a Different Species?” and “The Next Species of Human.” Are you willing to engineer the DNA of your unborn children and grand-children to be healthier? Better looking? More intelligent? Why are rates of autism, asthma, and allergies exploding at an unprecedented pace? Why are humans living longer and having far fewer kids? Futurist Juan Enriquez and scientist Steve Gullans conduct a sweeping tour of how humans are changing the course of evolution for all species—sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. For example: • What if life forms are limited only by the bounds of our imagination? Are designer babies and pets, de-extinction, even entirely newspecies fair game? • As humans, animals, and plants become ever more resistant to disease and aging, what will become the leading causes of death? • Man-machine interfaces may allow humans to live much longer. What will happen when we transfer parts of our “selves” into clones, into stored cells and machines? Though these harbingers of change are deeply unsettling, the authors argue we are also in an epoch of tremendous opportunity. Future humans, perhaps a more diverse, resilient, gentler, and intelligent species, may become better caretakers of the planet—but only if we make the right choices now. Intelligent, provocative, and optimistic, Evolving Ourselves is the ultimate guide to the next phase of life on Earth. Chosen by Nature magazine as a Fall 2016 season highlight.
Author : Hermann Klaatsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UCAL:B4390130
Author : Robin Dunbar,Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Evolutionary psychology
ISBN : 0571223036
The ideas in Robin Dunbar's previous book, Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, have since become scientific orthodoxy, and this looks set to make an even bigger splash Incredibly influential and popular; all of Dunbar's events for the hardback were sell-outs, and there's much more publicity to come Attractive new cover treatment to appeal to the broad popular science/psychology readership of Robert Winston and Desmond Morris
Author : LEWIN ROGER
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989-07-17
Category : Government publications
ISBN : 0895990253
Describes what is currently known about human evolution, loks at the work of anthropologists, and discusses the human traits of consciousness and language.