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ISBN 10: 0521372933
ISBN 13: 9780521372933
Author: Robert Boyd, Morris Goodman, Anne Simon Moffat
“Probing Human Origins” explores, from various perspectives, how humans became human. This collection of papers acknowledges the importance of genetic ‘blueprints’ but rejects the idea that the DNA sequence of the human genome contains a book of instructions that defines being human. Instead, it promotes the idea that during humankind’s evolutionary history, genic changes occurred in ancestral genomes that were positively selected to help shape the distinctive human phenotype. This view complements the idea that our social and physical environments guide how we act. Thus, a major trend in humankind’s evolutionary history has been the selection of genomes that gave their bearers the brain power to use learned, culturally transmitted behaviors to cope successfully with an increasing range of external challenges. Paradoxically, because of humankind’s genetic evolution, the future of the human species now depends most heavily on further cultural-social evolution rather than biological evolution.
PART! FOLKBIOLOGY 2 FOLKTAXONOMY
2.1 In the beginning.... 2.2 A basic level
2.3 Life-forms
2.4 Exceptions that prove the rule 2.5 Family fragments
3 THE SEMANTICS OF LIVING KINDS 3.1 Domain specificity
3.2 Meaning as a motley
3.3 Nature and necessity
3.4 Phenomenal reality and nomic theory 3-5 Kinds of natural kinds
PART II ARISTOTELIAN ESSENTIALS
4 ESSENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
4.1 Essentialism reconsidered
4.2 "Induction"
4-3 Form and matter
5.1 Genos and Eidos
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Division and assembly
53 Analogy
5.4 Failure's triumph
PART III FROM HERBALS TO SYSTEMS
6 ORIGINS OF THE SPECIES CONCEPT
6.1 Back to nature
6.2 Charting new territory 6.3 Species forever
6.4 Omnia ex ave
7 THE NATURE OF THE GENUS
7.1 Fruits of reason
7.2 Trial and error 7.3 Art and intuition 7.4 Paradise regained
PART IV THE SCIENTIFIC BREAKAWAY
8 THE METHOD OF FAMILIES AND CLASSES
3.1 Stress and strain
8.2 And the walls came tumbling down 8.3 Piecing together the fragments
8.4 Organization
8.5 End of series
9 SCIENCE, SYMBOLISM AND COMMON SENSE
9.1 Savage savvy
9.2 Cognitive "pathogenesis"
9.3 Speculating
9.4 Plants as animals
9.5 The analogy of nature
9.6 Man dethroned
9.7 Dispositions to susceptibilities
CONCLUSIONS
10 RUDIMENTS OF THE LINNAEAN HIERARCHY:
TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE
APPENDIX MILESTONES OF NATURAL HISTORY
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
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