The Biology Of Traditions

Author : Dorothy M. Fragaszy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521815970
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Traditions written by Dorothy M. Fragaszy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In exploring socially-maintained behavioral traditions in animals other than humans, this study treats traditions as biological phenomena amenable to comparative evaluation in the same way as other biological phenomena. Concerned with how widely shared features of social life and learning abilities can lead to traditions in many species, it differs from other books in its emphasis on explicit evaluation of alternative theories and methods, and in the breadth of species covered. It is essential reading for students and researchers in animal behavior, anthropology and psychology.

Author : Dorothy M. Fragaszy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521815975
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Traditions written by Dorothy M. Fragaszy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Jane Maienschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880-1915 written by Jane Maienschein and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin N. Laland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674031265
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Question of Animal Culture written by Kevin N. Laland and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, a troop of Japanese macaques was observed washing sandy sweet potatoes in a stream, sending ripples through the fields of ethology, comparative psychology, and cultural anthropology. The issue of animal culture has been hotly debated ever since. Now Kevin Laland and Bennett Galef have gathered key voices in the often rancorous debate to summarize the views along the continuum from “Culture? Of course!” to “Culture? Of course not!” The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the validity of animal culture, and what it might say about our own.

Author : Sherel Jeevan Joseph Mendonsa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152759131X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alasdair MacIntyre's Views and Biological Ethics written by Sherel Jeevan Joseph Mendonsa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most fundamental questions which moral philosophers have been grappling with include: What makes us moral beings? Is morality a product of culture or nature or both? Are ethical norms and principles universal and unchanging or are they relative, being rooted in specific socio-political and historical contexts? Can ethical conclusions be derived from descriptive statements? This book addresses these and similar questions through a comparative study between Alasdair MacIntyre’s views and biological ethics. It discusses how both MacIntyre’s views and biological ethics highlight the importance of human biology for human morality. Based on this discussion, the book proposes that both the rational and the biological (including the emotional) dimensions of humans have to be considered in order to understand the complex and multi-layered phenomenon of human morality. As such, it will prove to be a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of moral philosophy, especially those interested in studying the biological approach toward ethics, Thomistic Aristotelian ethics and metaethics.

Author : Jan G. van der Watt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004306676
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creation Stories in Dialogue: The Bible, Science, and Folk Traditions written by Jan G. van der Watt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about creation stories in dialogue, not only between different religious views, but also between current day scientific perspectives.

Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691178437
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Our Success written by Joseph Henrich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.

Author : Rüdiger Kunow
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 : 9783825368609
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Bodies written by Rüdiger Kunow and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2018 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Material Bodies' is a book about the multiple connections, exchanges, interfaces, between biology and culture. It explores how Americans, past and present, have been empowered or constrained by biological factors (real or imagined), how the biology of human life has been holding a special place within US culture, organizing people's praxis, and at the same time also their desires and fears. Positioned at the intersection of somatic and semantic systems, this volume seeks to bring the resources of materialist cultural critique to an exploration of various material arenas of human life, ranging from the public life of public diseases, the cultural grammars of the human body in genetics, in age and disability, all the way to the tensions between suffering and (its) representations in the available cultural archives. In the arguments presented here, human life and particularly the human body manifest themselves as an endowment, even a resource, but also as sites of questioning, of reflexivity, even of limitation, sites which mark the involuntary dimension of human existence as they impose inexorable limits on individual or collective hopes and projects.

Author : Hervé This
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231133128
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molecular Gastronomy written by Hervé This and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French chemist and television personality Herve This uses recent research in chemistry, physics, and biology of food to challenge traditional beliefs about cooking and eating.

Author : Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138867833
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition written by Gary B. Ferngren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.