The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often unable to solve basic problems, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced innovative technologies, sophisticated languages, and comp...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often unable to solve basic problems, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced innovative technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into environments across the globe. What has enabled us to dominate such a vast range of environments, more than any other species? As this book shows, the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—in the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another.Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, hunter-gatherers, neuroscientists, 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 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. Further on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and that this particular culture-gene interaction has propelled our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species’ immense success and our human uniqueness |
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| Beschreibung: | 376 pages) illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400873296 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781400873296 |
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| spelling | Henrich, Joseph Verfasser aut The Secret of Our Success How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter Joseph Henrich Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press [2016] © 2016 376 pages) illustrations txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 10 2015) Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often unable to solve basic problems, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced innovative technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into environments across the globe. What has enabled us to dominate such a vast range of environments, more than any other species? As this book shows, the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—in the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another.Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, hunter-gatherers, neuroscientists, 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 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. Further on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and that this particular culture-gene interaction has propelled our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species’ immense success and our human uniqueness In English Psychology, other Psychology Social Sciences Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie Behavior evolution Human evolution Social evolution Social Sciences Psychology Psychology, other Erfolg (DE-588)4015224-8 gnd rswk-swf Kooperatives Verhalten (DE-588)4123556-3 gnd rswk-swf Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd rswk-swf Ökonomische Anthropologie (DE-588)4321994-9 gnd rswk-swf Hominisation (DE-588)4072613-7 gnd rswk-swf Mensch (DE-588)4038639-9 gnd rswk-swf 1\p (DE-588)4143413-4 Aufsatzsammlung gnd-content Mensch (DE-588)4038639-9 s Hominisation (DE-588)4072613-7 s Kooperatives Verhalten (DE-588)4123556-3 s Ökonomische Anthropologie (DE-588)4321994-9 s Erfolg (DE-588)4015224-8 s Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 s 2\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780691166858 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400873296 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | The Secret of Our Success How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter |
| title_auth | The Secret of Our Success How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter |
| title_exact_search | The Secret of Our Success How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter |
| title_full | The Secret of Our Success How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter Joseph Henrich |
| title_fullStr | The Secret of Our Success How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter Joseph Henrich |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Secret of Our Success How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter Joseph Henrich |
| title_short | The Secret of Our Success |
| title_sort | the secret of our success how culture is driving human evolution domesticating our species and making us smarter |
| title_sub | How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter |
| topic | Psychology, other Psychology Social Sciences Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie Behavior evolution Human evolution Social evolution Social Sciences Psychology Psychology, other Erfolg (DE-588)4015224-8 gnd Kooperatives Verhalten (DE-588)4123556-3 gnd Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd Ökonomische Anthropologie (DE-588)4321994-9 gnd Hominisation (DE-588)4072613-7 gnd Mensch (DE-588)4038639-9 gnd |
| topic_facet | Psychology, other Psychology Social Sciences Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie Behavior evolution Human evolution Social evolution Social Sciences Psychology Psychology, other Erfolg Kooperatives Verhalten Kultur Ökonomische Anthropologie Hominisation Mensch Aufsatzsammlung |
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