What makes us human? /

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Imprint:Oxford : Oneworld, 2007.
Description:xxvii, 212 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6648390
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Other authors / contributors:Pasternak, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)
ISBN:9781851685196 (pbk.)
1851685197 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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