What Makes Us Human
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In The Light Of Evolution
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Author : National Academy of Sciences
language : en
Publisher: Sackler Colloquium
Release Date : 2007
In The Light Of Evolution written by National Academy of Sciences and has been published by Sackler Colloquium this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Science categories.
The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Each year, four or five such colloquia are scheduled, typically two days in length and international in scope. Colloquia are organized by a member of the Academy, often with the assistance of an organizing committee, and feature presentations by leading scientists in the field and discussions with a hundred or more researchers with an interest in the topic. Colloquia presentations are recorded and posted on the National Academy of Sciences Sackler colloquia website and published on CD-ROM. These Colloquia are made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Jill Sackler, in memory of her husband, Arthur M. Sackler.
What Makes Us Human
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Author : Charles Pasternak
language : en
Publisher: ONEWorld Publications
Release Date : 2007-10
What Makes Us Human written by Charles Pasternak and has been published by ONEWorld Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10 with Philosophy categories.
How and why did we become who we are? In "What Makes Us Human?" some of theorld's most brilliant thinkers offer their answers to this perennial puzzle,ncluding Susan Blackmore, Robin Dunbar, Susan Greenfield, Richard Harries,enan Malik, Richard Wrangham, Ian Tattersall, and Lewis Wolpert. Together,hey draw on a broad spectrum of disciplines, from anthropology, biochemistry,edicine, and neuroscience, to philosophy, psychology, and religion, to askhat makes us distinctively human. Is it our cognitive abilities, or our usef tools, our story-telling, our beliefs, our curiosity, our ability to cook,r our culture? Are we half-ape or half-angel? "What Makes Us Human?"xplains how and why our ancestors adapted to their surroundings to produceuch clever, talented, and unlikely progeny. It is for all to enjoy.
What Makes Us Human
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Author : Jean-Louis Lamboray
language : en
Publisher: Balboa Press
Release Date : 2016-10-25
What Makes Us Human written by Jean-Louis Lamboray and has been published by Balboa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-25 with Self-Help categories.
Me, Im a gangster. The police know me. Until recently, my job was to rob banks and to rape girls. Now, I realise that my life is more important than that! This is Kasure talking. He lives in Goroka, Papua New Guinea. What caused this change? When Jean-Louis Lamboray and 11 people from all continents launched the Constellation in 2004, they took the prism of our shared humanity to challenge the status quo. They dreamed of a world where communities would take charge of their own lives and connect for sharing and support. They would not teach nor preach but appreciate community strengths. They would not evaluate communities, but communities would assess themselves and learn from their actions. At the outset, Jean-Louis and his friends could only count on their own strengths to inch towards their dream. Now they celebrate a positive epidemic as in more than sixty countries thousands of communities mobilise their own strengths to address their concerns, shape their dream and act to fulfil it. Told with the simplicity of troubadours and of African storytellers this story of stories invites you to reflect and to trust in your own strengths as you join others to address collective challenges. And this is only the beginning of the journey Jean-Louis Lamboray is one of the worlds most impressive public health doctors. Lamborays ideas are original and brilliant, and theyve worked in practice. Richard Preston, contributor to The New Yorker, currently working on a successor book to The Hot Zone. At the Ministry of Health of Senegal, we try very hard to stimulate community ownership of health issues. Jean-Louiss book will help us take further action. Awa-Marie Coll-Seck, Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Senegal.
On Human Nature
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Author : Jonathan H. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-24
On Human Nature written by Jonathan H. Turner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with Social Science categories.
In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature as inherited from common ancestors shared by humans and present-day great apes. Selection pressures altered this inherited legacy for the ancestors of humans—termed hominins for being bipedal—and forced greater organization than extant great apes when the hominins moved into open-country terrestrial habitats. The effects of these selection pressures increased hominin ancestors’ emotional capacities through greater social and group orientation. This shift, in turn, enabled further selection for a larger brain, articulated speech, and culture along the human line. Turner elaborates human nature as a series of overlapping complexes that are the outcome of the inherited legacy of great apes being fed through the transforming effects of a larger brain, speech, and culture. These complexes, he shows, can be understood as the cognitive complex, the psychological complex, the emotions complex, the interaction complex, and the community complex.
How Culture Makes Us Human
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Author : Dwight W Read
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
How Culture Makes Us Human written by Dwight W Read and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Social Science categories.
What separates modern humans from our primate cousins—are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an evolutionary odyssey from our primate beginnings through the development of culture and social organization. He assesses the two major trends in this field: one that sees us as a logical culmination of primate evolution, arguing that the rudiments of culture exist in primates and even magpies, and another that views the human transition as so radical that the primate model provides no foundation for understanding human dynamics. Expertly synthesizing a wide body of evidence from the anthropological and life sciences in accessible prose, Read’s book will interest a broad readership from experts to undergraduate students and the general public.
Human
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Author : Michael S. Gazzaniga
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Human written by Michael S. Gazzaniga and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
What Makes Us Human
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Author : Charles Alexander Pasternak
language : en
Publisher: ONEWorld Publications
Release Date : 2007-01-01
What Makes Us Human written by Charles Alexander Pasternak and has been published by ONEWorld Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Philosophical anthropology categories.
In What Makes Us Human? some of the world's most brilliant thinkers offer their answers to this perennial puzzle, including Susan Blackmore, Robin Dunbar, Richard Harries, Kenan Malik and Lewis Wolpert. Together they draw on a broad spectrum of disciplines, from anthropology, medicine, and neuroscience, to philosophy, psychology and religion, to ask what makes us distinctively human. Is it our cognitive abilities, our use of tools, our story-telling, our beliefs, our curiosity, our ability to cook, or our culture?
The Origin Of Humankind
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Author : Richard Leakey
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-12-31
The Origin Of Humankind written by Richard Leakey and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-31 with Science categories.
A meticulously clear account of how early ape-men of the African savanna developed into fully human beings. Leakey has always been interested in far more than the mere physical features presented by fossils, and here he is particularly concerned with non-tangible human attributes, such as art, language and consciousness itself. Leakey's personal involvement in many of the key discoveries of hominid fossils, and his friendships and rivalries with his fellow fossil hunters, add more than a dash of spice to his narrative. "An outstanding account of our current understanding of human evolution" Sunday Times "An elegant summary of what is currently known about human evolution" Observer
How Water Makes Us Human
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Author : Luci Attala
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2019-04-01
How Water Makes Us Human written by Luci Attala and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-01 with Social Science categories.
This book is about how water becomes people – or, put another way, how people and water flow together and shape each other. While the focus of the book is on the relationships held between water and people, it also has a broader message about human relationships with the environment generally – a message that illustrates not only that people are existentially entangled with the material world, but that the materials of the world shape, determine and enable humans to be ‘humans’ in the ways that they are. Offering a selection of anthropological examples from Kenya, Wales and Spain to illustrate how water’s materiality coproductively generates the way people are able to engage with water, this book uses cross-disciplinary perspectives to provide and promote a new analytic – one that encourages ethical, holistic and sustainable relationships with the world around us. This approach challenges representations that ignore, sidestep or are blind to the fleshy materiality of being human, and aims to encourage a re-imagining of the world that acknowledges humanity as intrinsically active-with and part of the fabric of the collection of materials we call planet Earth.
Does Skill Make Us Human
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Author : Natasha Iskander
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
Does Skill Make Us Human written by Natasha Iskander and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Political Science categories.
Regulation : how the politics of skill become law -- Production : how skill makes cities -- Skill : how skill is embodied and what it means for the control of bodies -- Protest : how skillful practice becomes resistance -- Body : how definitions of skill cause injury -- Earth : how the politics of skill shape responses to climate change.