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Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals

By Peter M. Kappeler , Joan S. Silk , Judith M. Burkart , Carel P. van Schaik (auth.) , Joan Silk (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2010
ISBN
3642027245, 9783642027246
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-02725-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4462563 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
504\502
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47
Behavioural Sciences; Evolutionary Biology; Develo

Description

What makes us human? What made us become the way we are? One way to answer these questions is to identify the traits that all humans share, traits that are universal features of all human societies. Another way to do so is to ask how humans differ from other species, particularly from our closest relatives, the nonhuman primates. The contributors to this book pursue both approaches, in an effort to understand how evolution has shaped modern human behavior and societies.

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