The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural DiversityHarvard University Press, 1994 - 269 σελίδες The great debates about human origins, cultural history, and human nature confront us with two opposing images of human beings. One view emphasizes biology, the other emphasizes culture as the foundation of human behavior. In The Chosen Primate, Adam Kuper reframes these debates and reconsiders the fundamental questions of anthropology. Balancing biological and cultural perspectives, Kuper reviews our beliefs about human origins, the history of human culture, genes and intelligence, the nature of the gender differences, and the foundations of human politics. |
Περιεχόμενα
All Darwinians Now? | 1 |
To Begin at the Beginning | 19 |
A Hunian Way of Life | 54 |
The Evolution of Culture | 79 |
Cultivating the Species | 102 |
The Common Heritage | 130 |
First Family | 154 |
Male and Female | 179 |
The Origin of Society | 208 |
The Second Millennium | 230 |
Further Reading and Notes | 247 |
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