Mind the gap: tracing the origins of human universals

What makes us human? What made us become the way we are? One way to answer these questions is to identify the traits that all humans share, traits that areuniversal features of all human societies. Another way to do so is to ask howhumans differ from other species, particularly from our closest relatives, the nonhuman primates. The contributors to this book pursue both approaches, in an effort to understand how evolution has shaped modern human behavior and societies. Explicit attempt to examine the evolutionary origins of traits that are found in all human societies (human universals) Helps to identify the traitsthat we share with other primates as well as the traits that distinguish us from other primates so that we gain a deeper insight into what it means to be human

• ISBN: 978-3-642-02724-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 512
• Fecha Publicación: 23/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés