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Mark Pagel Wired for Culture (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Wired for Culture : Origins of the Human Social Mind
- Publication Name
- Wired for Culture
- Title
- Wired for Culture
- Subtitle
- Origins of the Human Social Mind
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0393344207
- EAN
- 9780393344202
- ISBN
- 9780393344202
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Genre
- Science, Social Science
- Topic
- Sociology / General, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
- Release Year
- 2013
- Release Date
- 19/03/2013
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth--namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture--and why? Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to influence our behavior today. Shedding light on our species' defining attributes--from art, morality, and altruism to self-interest, deception, and prejudice-- Wired for Culture offers surprising new insights into what it means to be human.
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Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393344207
ISBN-13
9780393344202
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150637663
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wired for Culture : Origins of the Human Social Mind
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Science, Social Science
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
12 Oz
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This richly rewarding work of science explains the evolutionary significance of living in a collaborative culture. Human evolution may be the hottest area in popular science writing, ahead even of books about cosmology and the brain. Within this crowded field, Mark Pagel's Wired for Culture stands out for both its sweeping erudition and its accessibility to the non-specialist reader., Gorgeously written, elegantly argued, Pagel demonstrates that genes are only a small part of the human success story; minds and culture are the larger part. A compelling read that allows us to appreciate everything around us with fresh eyes., Starred review. Pagel does an excellent job of using evolutionary biology to discuss the origins of religion, music, and art, and the reason why, cross-culturally, we generally share a sense of morality., Wired for Culture, a remarkable new book by Mark Pagel... sets out to explain [the] peculiar human property of fragmenting into mutually uncomprehending cultural groups... We use [language] to operate the cooperative but competitive system of social exchange that is a society: to charm, forgive, manipulate, bewitch, embroider, exaggerate, diminish, disparage--to choose just some of the verbs from the key paragraph of Dr. Pagel's (beautifully written) book., This richly rewarding work of science explains the evolutionary significance of living in a collaborative culture.Human evolution may be the hottest area in popular science writing, ahead even of books about cosmology and the brain. Within this crowded field, Mark Pagel's Wired for Culture stands out for both its sweeping erudition and its accessibility to the non-specialist reader., An intriguing combination of information...with an optimistic prediction of a future global society in which inventiveness and cooperation prevail.
Dewey Decimal
303.4
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Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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