
Title:
Humans in the making : in the beginning was technique
Author:
Dubois, Michel J.-F., author.
ISBN:
9781119788492
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Series:
Science, society and new technologies series, social interdisciplinarity set ; volume 4
Science, society and new technologies series. Social interdisciplinarity set ; v. 4.
Contents:
Phylogenetics of the Emergence of Humans. The Long and Slow Emergence of Humans -- Technique and Becoming Human -- Ethology: Technique and the Frog -- Neoteny: From Concept to Grand Narrative -- Issues of Neoteny and Technique -- Neoteny and Fetal Consciousness -- Inversion of the Analysis: The Lamarckian Bias -- Animal Behavior: Hermit Crabs and Their Shells -- Prejudice About the Priority of Values -- The First Phase of the Hominization Process -- Towards the Verticalization of the Genus Homo -- Technical Evolution and Neoteny of the Genus Homo -- Technique and Human Ontology. Technique as the Foundation of the Human Being -- The Domestication of the Wolf: A Decisive Advantage? -- Reforming Our Thinking About Humans? -- Emergence, Then Global Expansion -- The Myth of the Golden Age -- Conclusion: Post Hominization.
Abstract:
The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in the long time (more than 6 million years). The process is based on a very early necessity to use technic for surviving correlated with neoteny which impulsed a darwinian evolutionary process, with four distinguished punctuation described as neotenizations.
Local Note:
John Wiley and Sons
Electronic Access:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119788492Copies:
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