Description
Explaining Human Diversity
Cultures, Minds, Evolution
Author: Salazar Carles
Language: EnglishSubjects for Explaining Human Diversity:
Keywords
ToM Module; dna; Frequency Dependent Biases; sequences; Nineteenth Century Social Evolutionism; non-human; Non-human Animals; animals; Culture Gene Co-evolution; genetic; Genetic Knowledge; knowledge; Memetic Theory; culture; DNA Sequence; gene; Animal Kingdom; co-evolution; Maladaptive Cultures; cultural; Reproductive Fitness; Salazar Carles; DNA Strip; Junk DNA; Altruistic Cooperation; Group Selection Hypothesis; Human Cultural Diversity; Memetic Approach; Homo Erectus; DNA Structure; Homo Habilis; Cultural Reproduction; Big Brains; ToM Mechanism; General Biological Characteristics; Cultural Knowledge
Publication date: 07-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 07-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
Description
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Why are humans so different from each other and what makes the human species so different from all other living organisms? This introductory book provides a concise and accessible account of human diversity, of its causes and the ways in which anthropologists go about trying to make sense of it. Carles Salazar offers students a thoroughly integrated view by bringing together biological and sociocultural anthropology and including perspectives from evolutionary biology and psychology.
Introduction 1. Being human 2. A new form of knowledge 3. Theories of difference 4. Cultural evolution 5. Summary and conclusions
Carles Salazar is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Lleida, Spain. He has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, UK.