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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Richerson, Peter J. Not by genes alone. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2004006601 (OCoLC)54806438 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter J Richerson; Robert Boyd |
ISBN: | 9780226712130 0226712133 |
OCLC Number: | 662453049 |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 332 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Culture is essential -- Culture exists -- Culture evolves -- Culture is an adaptation -- Culture is maladaptive -- Culture and genes coevolve -- Nothing about culture makes sense except in the light of evolution. |
Responsibility: | Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd. |
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"Not by Genes Alone is a valuable and very readable synthesis of a still embryonic but very important subject straddling the sciences and humanities." - E. O. Wilson, Harvard University "I continue to be surprised by the number of educated people (many of them biologists) who think that offering explanations for human behavior in terms of culture somehow disproves the suggestion that human behavior can be explained in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Fortunately, we now have a book to which they may be directed for enlightenment.... It is a book full of good sense and the kinds of intellectual rigor and clarity of writing that we have come to expect from the Boyd/Richerson stable." - Robin Dunbar, Nature" Read more...


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