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GENES, MIND, AND CULTURE - THE COEVOLUTIONARY PROCESS: 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - Hardcover

Lumsden, Charles J; Wilson, Edward O

 
9789812562746: GENES, MIND, AND CULTURE - THE COEVOLUTIONARY PROCESS: 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9812562745 ISBN 13: 9789812562746
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Long considered one of the most provocative and demanding major works on human sociobiology, Genes, Mind, and Culture introduces the concept of gene-culture coevolution. It has been out of print for several years, and in this volume Lumsden and Wilson provide a much needed facsimile edition of their original work, together with a major review of progress in the discipline during the ensuing quarter century. They argue compellingly that human nature is neither arbitrary nor predetermined, and identify mechanisms that energize the upward translation from genes to culture. The authors also assess the properties of genetic evolution of mind within emergent cultural patterns. Lumsden and Wilson explore the rich and sophisticated data of developmental psychology and cognitive science in a fashion that, for the first time, aligns these disciplines with human sociobiology. The authors also draw on population genetics, cultural anthropology, and mathematical physics to set human sociobiology on a predictive base, and so trace the main steps that lead from the genes through human consciousness to culture.

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Synopsis

Long considered one of the most provocative and demanding major works on human sociobiology, "Genes, Mind, and Culture" introduces the concept of gene-culture coevolution. It has been out of print for several years, and in this volume Lumsden and Wilson provide a much needed facsimile edition of their original work, together with a major review of progress in the discipline during the ensuing quarter century. They argue compellingly that human nature is neither arbitrary nor predetermined, and identify mechanisms that energize the upward translation from genes to culture. The authors also assess the properties of genetic evolution of mind within emergent cultural patterns. Lumsden and Wilson explore the rich and sophisticated data of developmental psychology and cognitive science in a fashion that, for the first time, aligns these disciplines with human sociobiology. The authors also draw on population genetics, cultural anthropology, and mathematical physics to set human sociobiology on a predictive base, and so trace the main steps that lead from the genes through human consciousness to culture.

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Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9812562745
ISBN 13 
9789812562746
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
496