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050	0	0	_aBF698.95 _b.S745 2018
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100	1		_aStewart-Williams, Steve, _d1971- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe ape that understood the universe : _bhow the mind and culture evolve / _cSteve Stewart-Williams.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2018.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 368 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Sep 2018).
505	0		_aThe alien's challenge -- Darwin comes to mind -- The SeXX/XY animal -- The dating, mating, baby-making animal -- The altruistic animal -- The cultural animal -- Appendix A How to win an argument with a blank slater -- Appendix B How to win an argument with an anti-memeticist -- Permissions -- Notes -- References -- Index.
520			_aThe Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, our languages, and science? The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment.
650		0	_aEvolutionary psychology.
650		0	_aHuman behavior.
650		0	_aCulture.
650		0	_aInterpersonal relations.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108425049
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348140
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