{"product_id":"tales-of-the-ex-apes-jonathan-marks-9780520285828","title":"Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think about Human Evolution","description":"What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins--the study of evolution--and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates human evolution within a general anthropological framework and presents it as a special case of kinship and mythology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTales of the Ex-Apes\u003c\/i\u003e argues that human evolution has incorporated the emergence of social relations and cultural histories that are unprecedented in the apes and thus cannot be reduced to purely biological properties and processes. Marks shows that human evolution has involved the transformation from biological to biocultural evolution. Over tens of thousands of years, new social roles--notably spouse, father, in-laws, and grandparents--have co-evolved with new technologies and symbolic meanings to produce the human species, in the absence of significant biological evolution. We are biocultural creatures, Marks argues, fully comprehensible by recourse to neither our real ape ancestry nor our imaginary cultureless biology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Marks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520285824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520285828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2016","brand":"Jonathan Marks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043290018047,"sku":"9780520285828","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd9cfb6b-32d8-4319-9855-8b8bfcef7cd3.jpg?v=1684966310","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tales-of-the-ex-apes-jonathan-marks-9780520285828","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}