A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species

by Robert Boyd

Book Overview

How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species

Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability--people are just smarter than all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691177732
• ISBN13: 9780691177731
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"