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Auteur(s) : Sterelny, Kim (1950-....)
Titre(s) : The evolved apprentice [Texte imprimé] : how evolution made humans unique / Kim Sterelny
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : The MIT press, cop. 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi-242 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : The Jean Nicod lectures
Lien à la collection : The Jean Nicod lectures
Comprend : The challenge of novelty : The social intelligence hypothesis ; Cooperative foraging
; Cooperative foraging and knowledge accumulation ; Life in a changing world ; Accumulating
cognitive capital : A lineage explanation of social learning ; Feedback loops ; The
apprentice learning model ; Adapted individuals, adapted environments : Behavioral
modernity ; The symbolic species ; Public symbols and social worlds ; Preserving and
expanding information ; Niche construction and Neanderthal extinction ; The human
cooperation syndrome : Triggering cooperation ; A cooperation complex ; The grandmother
hypothesis ; Foragers: ancient and modern ; Hunting: provisioning or signaling? ;
Costs and commitments : Free riders ; Control and commitment ; Commitment mechanisms
; Signals, investments, and interventions ; Hunting and commitment ; Commitment through
investment ; Primitive trust ; Signals, cooperation, and learning : Sperber's dilemma
; Two faces of cultural learning ; Honesty mechanisms ; The fold as educators ; From
skills to norms : Norms and communities ; Moral nativism ; Self-control, vigilance,
and persuasion ; Reactive and reflective moral response ; Moral apprentices ; The
biological preparation of moral development ; The expansion of cultural learning
; Cooperation and conflict : Group selection ; Strong reciprocity and human cooperation
; Children of strife? ; The Holocene: a world queerer than we realized?
Note(s) : "A Bradford book" en page de titre. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index
"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. No other great ape lineage--including
those of chimpanzees and gorillas--seems to have undergone such a profound transformation.
In The Evolved Apprentice, Kim Sterelny argues that the divergence stems from the
fact that humans gradually came to enrich the learning environment of the next generation.
Humans came to cooperate in sharing information, and to cooperate ecologically and
reproductively, as well, and these changes initiated positive feedback loops that
drove us further from other great apes. Sterelny develops a new theory of the evolution
of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the gradual evolution of
information-sharing practices across generations and how these practices transformed
human minds and social lives. Sterelny proposes that humans developed a new form of
ecological interaction with their environment, cooperative foraging, which led to
positive feedback linking ecological cooperation, cultural learning, and environmental
change. The ability to cope with the immense variety of human ancestral environments
and social forms, he argues, depended not just on adapted minds but also on adapted
developmental environments."--Jacket
Sujet(s) : Archéologie cognitive
Psychologie génétique
Coopération
Homme -- Évolution
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780262016797 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0262016796 (hardcover) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43783253m
Notice n° :
FRBNF43783253
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