The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique

By Kim Sterelny. 2012

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. Odling-Smee
2. Kevin N. Laland
3. A. Boyette
4. B. Hewlett
5. Alex Mesoudi
6. Erle C. Ellis
7. Bruce D. Smith
8. M. J. O’Brien

Citations in the corpus

• Teaching in Hunter-Gatherers (2018, background): “We are unique in the degree that we cooperate in food production and sharing, in childcare, and in the distribution of information (Sterelny 2012b).”
• More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited (2013, background): “…technology—can be regarded as fashioned by a process of ‘cultural evolution’, encompassing generations of social learning, teaching, and innovation (Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman 1981; Boyd and Richerson 1985; Jablonka and Lamb 2005; Plotkin 2010; Blute 2010; Mesoudi 2011; Pagel 2012; Sterelny 2012).”