Humans in the Making (eBook)

In the Beginning was Technique

Michel J. F. Dubois (Autor)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
272 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-78847-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Michel J. F. Dubois: Referent expert in agriculture sciences in UniLaSalle polytechnic institute; associate scientist at LIED, Paris Diderot (Paris VII); President of Ingenium, french net of scientists in human sciences affiliated in higher engineer training institutions.

Inhalt

1st part - A phylogenetic view of human emergence2nd Part ? Ontology of human in relationship with techniqueConclusionBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Schlagworte: Biowissenschaften • Cognitive Development • cognitive science • Evolution • Evolution des Menschen • Human Evolution • Kognitionsentwicklung • Kognitionswissenschaft • Life Sciences • Psychologie • Psychology
• ISBN-10: 1-119-78847-1 / 1119788471
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-78847-8 / 9781119788478