Summary: | Foreword / Walter Bodmer -- Contributors -- 1. Imitation makes us human / Susan Blackmore -- 2. Memory, time, and language / Michael Corballis and Thomas Suddendorf -- 3. Why are humans not just great apes? / Robin Dunbar -- 4. The hominid that talked / Maurizio Gentilucci and Michael Corballis -- 5. Half ape, half angel? / the Rt. Reverend Richard Harries -- 6. Material facts from a nonmaterialist perspective / David Hulme -- 7. What makes us human? Our ancestors and the weather / Stephen Oppenheimer -- 8. Curiosity and quest / Charles Pasternak -- 9. Human evolution and the human condition / Ian Tattersall -- 10. The place of "deep social mind" in the evolution of human nature / Andrew Whiten -- 11. Causal belief makes us human / Lewis Wolpert -- 12. The cooking enigma / Richard Wrangham -- Index.
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