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Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution
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Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution

著者: Alison Jolly
出版商: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human--not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, and biology as destiny but rather one of cooperation and interdependence, from the first merging of molecules to the rise of a species inextricably linked by language, culture, and group living. This is the story that unfolds in Lucyʼs Legacy, the saga of human evolution
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附加的形体格式: Online version:
Jolly, Alison.
Lucy's legacy.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)647046536
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所有的著者/提供者: Alison Jolly
ISBN: 0674000692 9780674000698
OCLC号码: 41528382
描述: 518 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
内容: The evolution of purpose --
Life, sex, and cooperation --
Sex: why bother? --
Courtship and choice --
Calculating love --
Women in the wild --
Lemurs, monkeys, apes --
Human apes --
Apish intelligence --
Organic wholes --
A gendered body --
Instinct, learning, and fate --
Thinking --
Speaking adaptively --
Are babies human? --
Feet first, brains later --
Demanding control --
The global organism.
责任: Alison Jolly.

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Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human--not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, and biology as destiny but rather one of cooperation and interdependence, from the first merging of molecules to the rise of a species inextricably linked by language, culture, and group living. This is the story that unfolds in Lucyʼs Legacy, the saga of human evolution as told by a world-renowned primatologist who works among the female-dominant ringtailed lemurs of Madagascar. We cannot be certain that Lucy was female-the bones themselves do not tell us. However, we do know, as Jolly points out in this erudite, funny, and informative book, that the females who came after Lucy-more adept than their males in verbal facility, sharing food, forging links between generations, migrating among places and groups, and devising creative mating strategies-played as crucial a role in the human evolutionary process as ʺmanʺ ever did. In a book that takes us from the first cell to global society, Jolly shows us that to learn where we came from and where we go next, we need to understand how sex and intelligence, cooperation and love, emerged from the harsh Darwinian struggle in the past, and how these natural powers may continue to evolve in the future. Winner of the 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Sociology and Anthropology Category.

Includes information on bonobos, chimpanzees, competition, cooperation, Charles Darwin, evolution, food and food supply, genes, gorillas, harems, kinship, language, lemurs, Japanese macaques, mating and mates, memes, menopause, monkeys, monogamy, natural selection, offspring, orangutans, poetry, sex, societies/social groups, tools and toolmaking, violence, war/warfare, etc.

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