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The Resource Tales of the ex-apes : how we think about human evolution, Jonathan Marks

Tales of the ex-apes : how we think about human evolution, Jonathan Marks

Label
Tales of the ex-apes : how we think about human evolution
Title
Tales of the ex-apes
Title remainder
how we think about human evolution
Statement of responsibility
Jonathan Marks
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"This book is about the irreducibility of human evolution to purely biological properties and processes, for human evolution has incorporated the emergence of social relations and cultural histories that are unprecedented in the apes. Human evolution over the last few million years has involved the transformation from biological evolution into biocultural evolution. For several million years, human intelligence, dexterity, and technology all co-evolved with one another, although the first two are organic properties and the last is inorganic. Over the last few tens of thousands of years, the development of new social roles - notably, spouse, father, in-laws, and grandparents - have been combined with new technologies and symbolic meanings to produce the familiar human species. This leads to a fundamental evolutionary understanding of humans as biocultural ex-apes; reducible neither to an imaginary cultureless biological core, nor to our ancestry as apes. Consequently, there can be no 'natural history' of the human condition, or the human organism, which is not a 'natural/cultural history'."--Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
CU-S/DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1955-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Marks, Jonathan
Dewey number
599.93/8
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
GN360
LC item number
.M37 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2015 J-148
  • GN 360
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Social evolution
  • Human evolution
  • Cultural Evolution
  • Biological Evolution
  • Sociological Factors
  • Social Behavior
  • Human evolution
  • Social evolution
Label
Tales of the ex-apes : how we think about human evolution, Jonathan Marks
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Science -- History and morality -- Evolutionary concepts -- How to think about evolution non-reductively -- How our ancestors transgressed the boundaries of apehood -- Human evolution as biocultural evolution -- Human nature/culture
Control code
ocn905419281
Dimensions
21 cm
Extent
xiii, 220 pages
Isbn
9780520285811
Lccn
2015006790
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780520285828
  • (OCoLC)905419281
Label
Tales of the ex-apes : how we think about human evolution, Jonathan Marks
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Science -- History and morality -- Evolutionary concepts -- How to think about evolution non-reductively -- How our ancestors transgressed the boundaries of apehood -- Human evolution as biocultural evolution -- Human nature/culture
Control code
ocn905419281
Dimensions
21 cm
Extent
xiii, 220 pages
Isbn
9780520285811
Lccn
2015006790
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780520285828
  • (OCoLC)905419281

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