Evolved Apprentice How Evolution Made Humans Unique

Name: Evolved Apprentice How Evolution Made Humans Unique
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ISBN: 9780262016797

ISBN-10: 0262016796

ISBN-13: 9780262016797

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kim Sterelny

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Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual behavior, and foraging patterns have all shifted sharply away from other great apes. No other great ape lineage--including those of chimpanzees and gorillas--seems to have undergone such a profound transformation. In The Evolved Apprentice, Kim Sterelny argues that the divergence stems from the fact that humans gradually came to enrich the learning environment of the next generation. Humans came to cooperate in sharing information, and to cooperate ecologically and…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. His books include Language and Reality (with Michael Devitt; second edition, MIT Press).



Series Foreword


Preface



The Challenge of Novelty



Introduction



The Social Intelligence Hypothesis



Cooperative Foraging



Cooperative Foraging and Knowledge Accumulation



Life in a Changing World



Accumulating Cognitive Capital



A Lineage Explanation of Social Learning



Feedback Loops



The Apprentice Learning Model



Adapted Individuals, Adapted Environments



Behavioral Modernity



The Symbolic Species



Public Symbols and Social Worlds



Preserving and Expanding Information



Niche Construction and Neanderthal Extinction



The Human Cooperation Syndrome



Triggering Cooperation



A Cooperation Complex



The Grandmother Hypothesis



Foragers: Ancient and Modern



Hunting: Provisioning or Signaling?



Costs and Commitments



Free Riders



Control and Commitment



Commitment Mechanisms



Signals, Investments, and Interventions



Hunting and Commitment



Commitment through Investment



Primitive Trust



Signals, Cooperation, and Learning



Sperber's Dilemma



Two Faces of Cultural Learning



Honesty Mechanisms



The Folk as Educators



From Skills to Norms



Norms and Communities



Moral Nativism



Self-Control, Vigilance, and Persuasion



Reactive and Reflective Moral Response 1



Moral Apprentices



The Biological Preparation of Moral Development



The Expansion of Cultural Learning



Cooperation and Conflict



Group Selection



Strong Reciprocity and Human Cooperation



Children of Strife?



The Holocene: A World Queerer Than We Realized?


Notes


References


Index