Wired for Culture Origins of the Human Social Mind

Name: Wired for Culture Origins of the Human Social Mind
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ISBN: 9780393344202

ISBN-10: 0393344207

ISBN-13: 9780393344202

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Authors: Mark Pagel

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A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture—and why?Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to…

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List price: $18.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/11/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.19" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: The Gamble



Mind Control, Protection, and Prosperity


Prologue



The Occupation of the World



Ultra-sociality and the Cultural Survival Vehicle



The Domestication of Our Talents



Religion and Other Cultural "Enhancers"



Cooperation and our Cultural Nature


Prologue



Reciprocity and the Shadow of the Future



Green Beards and the Reputation Marketplace



Hostile Forces



The Theatre of the Mind


Prologue



Human Language-The Voice of Our Genes



Deception, Consciousness, and Truth



The Many and the Few


Prologue



Termite Mounds and the Exploitation of Our Social Instincts


References


Bibliography


Index