The secret of our success : (Record no. 91035)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20211104091533.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 150226s2016 njuabd b 001 0 eng d |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2015934779 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691178431 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | GN 281.4 |
| Item number | .H394 2016 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Henrich, Joseph Patrick, |
| 9 (RLIN) | 127389 |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The secret of our success : |
| Remainder of title | how culture is driving human evolution, domesticating our species, and making us smarter / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Joseph Henrich |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Princeton : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Princeton University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2016]. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv, 445 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations, maps, charts |
| Dimensions | 25 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text;still image;cartographic image |
| Source | rdacontent;rdacontent;rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Available in 2015 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-427) and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | A puzzling primate -- It's not our intelligence -- Lost European explorers -- How to make a cultural species -- What are big brains for? : or, How culture stole our guts -- Why some people have blue eyes -- On the origin of faith -- Prestige, dominance, and menopause -- In-laws, incest taboos, and rituals -- Intergroup competition shapes cultural evolution -- Self-domestication -- Our collective brains -- Communicative tools with rules -- Enculturated brains and honorable hormones -- When we crossed the Rubicon -- Why us? -- A new kind of animal |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains--on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.--provided by publisher |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Behavior evolution. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 113951 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Cognition and culture. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 127390 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Human evolution. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social evolution. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 23493 |
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