{"product_id":"evolution-and-human-uniqueness-kim-sterelny-9780197834848","title":"Evolution and Human Uniqueness","description":"It is widely agreed that the human evolutionary story is puzzling. As both individuals and in groups, we contrast with all other large animals in our numbers, geographical spread, ecological impact, dependence on technology, and cooperation. This contrast evolved very rapidly -- in just a few million years. Most theories of this transition identify a key innovation: a crucial adaptive change that powered the human revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book develops and presents an alternative account of this transformation. Our ancestors' lifeways became dependent on high value resources. Such resources require some combination of technology, cooperation, knowledge, and skill if they are to be harvested reliability. Initially small differences in abilities to cooperate, learn socially, and use technology increased though positive feedback, allowing our ancestors to spread into new environments and new lands. By the emergence of our own species, or earlier, we had evolved the cognitive and social capacities to build information packages suitable to environments very different from our ancestral African homelands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Sterelny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197834841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197834848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Kim Sterelny","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49084130623743,"sku":"9780197834848","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/evolution-and-human-uniqueness-kim-sterelny-9780197834848","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}