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The Evolved Apprentice : How Evolution Made Humans Unique.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jean Nicod LecturesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (259 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262302814
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Evolved ApprenticeDDC classification:
  • 155.7
LOC classification:
  • BF698.95
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Challenge of Novelty -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Social Intelligence Hypothesis -- 1.3 Cooperative Foraging -- 1.4 Cooperative Foraging and Knowledge Accumulation -- 1.5 Life in a Changing World -- Chapter 2. Accumulating Cognitive Capital -- 2.1 A Lineage Explanation of Social Learning -- 2.2 Feedback Loops -- 2.3 The Apprentice Learning Model -- Chapter 3. Adapted Individuals, Adapted Environments -- 3.1 Behavioral Modernity -- 3.2 The Symbolic Species -- 3.3 Public Symbols and Social Worlds -- 3.4 Preserving and Expanding Information -- 3.5 Niche Construction and Neanderthal Extinction -- Chapter 4. The Human Cooperation Syndrome -- 4.1 Triggering Cooperation -- 4.2 A Cooperation Complex -- 4.3 The Grandmother Hypothesis -- 4.4 Foragers: Ancient and Modern -- 4.5 Hunting: Provisioning or Signaling? -- Chapter 5. Costs and Commitments -- 5.1 Free Riders -- 5.2 Control and Commitment -- 5.3 Commitment Mechanisms -- 5.4 Signals, Investments, and Interventions -- 5.5 Hunting and Commitment -- 5.6 Commitment through Investment -- 5.7 Primitive Trust -- Chapter 6. Signals, Cooperation, and Learning -- 6.1 Sperber's Dilemma -- 6.2 Two Faces of Cultural Learning -- 6.3 Honesty Mechanisms -- 6.4 The Folk as Educators -- Chapter 7. From Skills to Norms -- 7.1 Norms and Communities -- 7.2 Moral Nativism -- 7.3 Self- Control, Vigilance, and Persuasion -- 7.4 Reactive and Reflective Moral Response -- 7.5 Moral Apprentices -- 7.6 The Biological Preparation of Moral Development -- 7.7 The Expansion of Cultural Learning -- Chapter 8. Cooperation and Conflict -- 8.1 Group Selection -- 8.2 Strong Reciprocity and Human Cooperation -- 8.3 Children of Strife? -- 8.4 The Holocene: A World Queerer Than We Realized? -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: A new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the role of information sharing across generations.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Challenge of Novelty -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Social Intelligence Hypothesis -- 1.3 Cooperative Foraging -- 1.4 Cooperative Foraging and Knowledge Accumulation -- 1.5 Life in a Changing World -- Chapter 2. Accumulating Cognitive Capital -- 2.1 A Lineage Explanation of Social Learning -- 2.2 Feedback Loops -- 2.3 The Apprentice Learning Model -- Chapter 3. Adapted Individuals, Adapted Environments -- 3.1 Behavioral Modernity -- 3.2 The Symbolic Species -- 3.3 Public Symbols and Social Worlds -- 3.4 Preserving and Expanding Information -- 3.5 Niche Construction and Neanderthal Extinction -- Chapter 4. The Human Cooperation Syndrome -- 4.1 Triggering Cooperation -- 4.2 A Cooperation Complex -- 4.3 The Grandmother Hypothesis -- 4.4 Foragers: Ancient and Modern -- 4.5 Hunting: Provisioning or Signaling? -- Chapter 5. Costs and Commitments -- 5.1 Free Riders -- 5.2 Control and Commitment -- 5.3 Commitment Mechanisms -- 5.4 Signals, Investments, and Interventions -- 5.5 Hunting and Commitment -- 5.6 Commitment through Investment -- 5.7 Primitive Trust -- Chapter 6. Signals, Cooperation, and Learning -- 6.1 Sperber's Dilemma -- 6.2 Two Faces of Cultural Learning -- 6.3 Honesty Mechanisms -- 6.4 The Folk as Educators -- Chapter 7. From Skills to Norms -- 7.1 Norms and Communities -- 7.2 Moral Nativism -- 7.3 Self- Control, Vigilance, and Persuasion -- 7.4 Reactive and Reflective Moral Response -- 7.5 Moral Apprentices -- 7.6 The Biological Preparation of Moral Development -- 7.7 The Expansion of Cultural Learning -- Chapter 8. Cooperation and Conflict -- 8.1 Group Selection -- 8.2 Strong Reciprocity and Human Cooperation -- 8.3 Children of Strife? -- 8.4 The Holocene: A World Queerer Than We Realized? -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the role of information sharing across generations.

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