In light of our differences : how diversity in nature and culture makes us human /

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Author / Creator:Harmon, David, 1958-
Imprint:Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2002.
Description:xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4753121
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ISBN:158834066X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-219) and index.

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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Voltaire's Solution --  |t Diversity, Globalization, and the Roots of Endangerment --  |t The Great Chain of Being and the Principle of Plenitude --  |t The Romantic Transformation and Beyond --  |t The Real Discovery of Diversity --  |g 2.  |t The Converging Extinction Crises --  |t Biodiversity as Scientific Concept and Rallying Cry --  |t A Brief History of Biological Extinctions --  |t Agriculture and the Decline of Variety --  |t Extinction Rates: Measuring the Past, Predicting the Future --  |t What is Cultural Diversity? --  |t Globalization and Cultural Diversity --  |t The Value of Cultural Diversity --  |t Indicators of Cultural Diversity --  |t Language: The Best Proxy --  |t The History of Language Extinctions: Some Speculations --  |t Prospects for Languages in the Coming Century --  |t The Example of Manx --  |t The Biocultural Presence --  |g 3.  |t Species, Languages, and the Structure of Diversity --  |t Similarities Between Species and Languages --  |t Speciation and Language Genesis --  |t Endemism in Species and Languages --  |t Reasons for Decline --  |t Assessing Diversity --  |t Monothetic versus Polythetic Classification --  |t Foundations of Polythetic Classification --  |t Polythetic Classification: Recent Elaborations --  |t Polythetic Groups as "Natural Kinds" --  |t The Reality of Species and Languages --  |g 4.  |t What We Do with Difference --  |t Distilling Sameness from Difference: William James --  |t Distilling Sameness from Difference: A Model --  |t Diversity and Determinism --  |t A Polythetic Universe --  |t Loss of Diversity: Cognitive and Cultural Consequences --  |t Our Evolutionary Inheritance --  |g 5.  |t Diversity and the Human Identity --  |t Are Biological and Cultural Diversity Really Related? --  |t Avoiding the Trap of Relativism: Polythetic Morality --  |t The Coming Threshold --  |t From Uniformity to Unity. 
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