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 have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability--people are just smarter than all the rest. But Robert Boyd argues that culture--our ability to learn from each other--has been the essential ingredient of our remarkable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691195900
• ISBN13: 9780691195902
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.1"