The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique

by Kim Sterelny

Book Overview

Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual behavior, and foraging patterns have all shifted sharply away from those of the other great apes. In The Evolved Apprentice , Kim Sterelny argues that the divergence stems from the fact that humans gradually came to enrich the learning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262016796
• ISBN13: 9780262016797
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher