What makes us human?
by Pasternak, Charles A., (Charles Alexander)
Foreword / Walter Bodmer -- Contributors -- 1. Imitation makes us human / Susan Blackmore -- 2. Memory, time, and language / Michael Corballis and Thomas Suddendorf -- 3. Why are humans not just great apes? / Robin Dunbar -- 4. The hominid that talked / Maurizio Gentilucci and Michael Corballis -- 5. Half ape, half angel? / the Rt. Reverend Richard Harries -- 6. Material facts from a nonmaterialist perspective / David Hulme -- 7. What makes us human? Our ancestors and the weather / Stephen Oppe…
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- Full title :What makes us human? / edited by Charles Pasternak.
Summary
Foreword / Walter Bodmer -- Contributors -- 1. Imitation makes us human / Susan Blackmore -- 2. Memory, time, and language / Michael Corballis and Thomas Suddendorf -- 3. Why are humans not just great apes? / Robin Dunbar -- 4. The hominid that talked / Maurizio Gentilucci and Michael Corballis -- 5. Half ape, half angel? / the Rt. Reverend Richard Harries -- 6. Material facts from a nonmaterialist perspective / David Hulme -- 7. What makes us human? Our ancestors and the weather / Stephen Oppenheimer -- 8. Curiosity and quest / Charles Pasternak -- 9. Human evolution and the human condition / Ian Tattersall -- 10. The place of "deep social mind" in the evolution of human nature / Andrew Whiten -- 11. Causal belief makes us human / Lewis Wolpert -- 12. The cooking enigma / Richard Wrangham -- Index.
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- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oneworld
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxvii, 212 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781851685196, 1851685197
- oclc:ocm75714067
- LC Classification:BD450
- Dewey Decimal:128
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