Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind ~ the agency of Mark Pagel
W. W. Norton & Company | 2012 | ISBN: 0393065871, 0393344207 | English | 432 pages | EPUB + MOBI | 0.40 MB + 0.70 MB
A fascinating, distant-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the deportment of our social and evolutionary story.
A unique trait of the human variety is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped ~ means of an accident of birth namely, the refinement into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that make out which foods we eat, which languages we articulate, which people we love and wed, and which people we kill in state of opposition. But how did our species expand a mind that is hardwired for culture and why?
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