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020			_a9781108425049
082			_a155.7 STE-S
100			_aStewart-Williams, Steve
245			_aThe ape that understood the universe : _bhow the mind and culture evolve / _cSteve Stewart-Williams
260			_aUnited Kingdom _bCambridge University Press _c2018
300			_a368 p.
365			_aGBP _b20.99.
500			_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			_aCulture
650			_aEvolutionary psychology
650			_aHuman behavior
650			_aInterpersonal relations
650			_aPsychology
650			_aPsychobiology
650			_aEvolution (Biology)
650			_aLife sciences