Humans in the making : in the beginning was technique /
The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, United Kingdom : Hoboken, NJ :
ISTE, Ltd. ; Wiley,
2020.
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| Series: | Science, society and new technologies series. Social interdisciplinarity set ;
v. 4. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Phylogenetics of the Emergence of Humans. The Long and Slow Emergence of Humans
- Technique and Becoming Human
- Ethology: Technique and the Frog
- Neoteny: From Concept to Grand Narrative
- Issues of Neoteny and Technique
- Neoteny and Fetal Consciousness
- Inversion of the Analysis: The Lamarckian Bias
- Animal Behavior: Hermit Crabs and Their Shells
- Prejudice About the Priority of Values
- The First Phase of the Hominization Process
- Towards the Verticalization of the Genus Homo
- Technical Evolution and Neoteny of the Genus Homo
- Technique and Human Ontology. Technique as the Foundation of the Human Being
- The Domestication of the Wolf: A Decisive Advantage?
- Reforming Our Thinking About Humans?
- Emergence, Then Global Expansion
- The Myth of the Golden Age
- Conclusion: Post Hominization.
