Lucy's Legacy

Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution

Автор: Alison Jolly

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Harvard University Press

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Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human - not the al...

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Автор

Alison Jolly

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2001

страници

528

EAN

9780674005402

ISBN

0674005406

Enbook ID

04634249

Издател

Harvard University Press

Теглоt

780

Размери

161 x 237 x 28

Пълно описание

Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human - not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, and biology as destiny but rather one of cooperation and interdependence, from the first merging of molecules to the rise of a species inextricably linked by langauge, culture, and group living. This is the story that unfolds in this book, the saga of human evolution as told by a world-renowned primatologist who works among the female-dominant ringtailed lemurs of Madagascar. We cannot be certain that Lucy was female - the bones themselves do not tell us. However, we do know, as Jolly points out in this book, that the females who came after Lucy - more adept than their males in verbal facility, sharing food, forging links between generations, migrating among places and groups, and devising creative mating strategies - played as crucial a role in the human evolutionary process as "man" ever did. In a book that takes us from the first cell to global society, Jolly shows us that to learn where we came from and where we go next, we need to understand how sex and intelligence, cooperation and love, emerged from the harsh darwinian struggle in the past, and how these natural powers may continue to evolve in the future.

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