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The Resource Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution, Alison Jolly
Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution, Alison Jolly
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- Summary
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- Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human--not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, and biology as destiny but rather one of cooperation and interdependence, from the first merging of molecules to the rise of a species inextricably linked by language, culture, and group living. This is the story that unfolds in Lucyʼs Legacy, the saga of human evolution as told by a world-renowned primatologist who works among the female-dominant ringtailed lemurs of Madagascar. We cannot be certain that Lucy was female-the bones themselves do not tell us. However, we do know, as Jolly points out in this erudite, funny, and informative book, that the females who came after Lucy-more adept than their males in verbal facility, sharing food, forging links between generations, migrating among places and groups, and devising creative mating strategies-played as crucial a role in the human evolutionary process as ʺmanʺ ever did. In a book that takes us from the first cell to global society, Jolly shows us that to learn where we came from and where we go next, we need to understand how sex and intelligence, cooperation and love, emerged from the harsh Darwinian struggle in the past, and how these natural powers may continue to evolve in the future. Winner of the 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Sociology and Anthropology Category
- Includes information on bonobos, chimpanzees, competition, cooperation, Charles Darwin, evolution, food and food supply, genes, gorillas, harems, kinship, language, lemurs, Japanese macaques, mating and mates, memes, menopause, monkeys, monogamy, natural selection, offspring, orangutans, poetry, sex, societies/social groups, tools and toolmaking, violence, war/warfare, etc
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 518 pages
- Contents
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- The evolution of purpose
- Life, sex, and cooperation
- Sex: why bother?
- Courtship and choice
- Calculating love
- Women in the wild
- Lemurs, monkeys, apes
- Human apes
- Apish intelligence
- Organic wholes
- A gendered body
- Instinct, learning, and fate
- Thinking
- Speaking adaptively
- Are babies human?
- Feet first, brains later
- Demanding control
- The global organism
- Isbn
- 9780674000698
- Label
- Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution
- Title
- Lucy's legacy
- Title remainder
- sex and intelligence in human evolution
- Statement of responsibility
- Alison Jolly
- Subject
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- Evolutionary psychology
- Femmes -- Évolution
- Hominidae
- Hominidae
- Hominidae
- Hominidae
- Homme -- Évolution
- Homme -- Évolution
- Human evolution
- Human evolution
- Intellect
- Intellect
- Intelligence
- Evolutie
- Intelligentie
- Primaten
- Sekseverschillen
- Sex
- Sex
- Social evolution
- Social evolution
- Women
- Women
- Women -- Evolution
- Women -- Evolution
- Évolution sociale
- Évolution sociale
- Intelligence
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human--not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, and biology as destiny but rather one of cooperation and interdependence, from the first merging of molecules to the rise of a species inextricably linked by language, culture, and group living. This is the story that unfolds in Lucyʼs Legacy, the saga of human evolution as told by a world-renowned primatologist who works among the female-dominant ringtailed lemurs of Madagascar. We cannot be certain that Lucy was female-the bones themselves do not tell us. However, we do know, as Jolly points out in this erudite, funny, and informative book, that the females who came after Lucy-more adept than their males in verbal facility, sharing food, forging links between generations, migrating among places and groups, and devising creative mating strategies-played as crucial a role in the human evolutionary process as ʺmanʺ ever did. In a book that takes us from the first cell to global society, Jolly shows us that to learn where we came from and where we go next, we need to understand how sex and intelligence, cooperation and love, emerged from the harsh Darwinian struggle in the past, and how these natural powers may continue to evolve in the future. Winner of the 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Sociology and Anthropology Category
- Includes information on bonobos, chimpanzees, competition, cooperation, Charles Darwin, evolution, food and food supply, genes, gorillas, harems, kinship, language, lemurs, Japanese macaques, mating and mates, memes, menopause, monkeys, monogamy, natural selection, offspring, orangutans, poetry, sex, societies/social groups, tools and toolmaking, violence, war/warfare, etc
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jolly, Alison
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GN281
- LC item number
- .J6 1999
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2000 L-962
- GN 281
- NLM item number
- J75L 1999
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Human evolution
- Social evolution
- Women
- Intellect
- Hominidae
- Sex
- Women
- Homme
- Évolution sociale
- Femmes
- Intelligence
- Human evolution
- Intellect
- Social evolution
- Women
- Evolutie
- Evolutionary psychology
- Primaten
- Sekseverschillen
- Intelligentie
- Sex
- Hominidae
- Homme
- Intelligence
- Évolution sociale
- Label
- Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution, Alison Jolly
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 462-499) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The evolution of purpose -- Life, sex, and cooperation -- Sex: why bother? -- Courtship and choice -- Calculating love -- Women in the wild -- Lemurs, monkeys, apes -- Human apes -- Apish intelligence -- Organic wholes -- A gendered body -- Instinct, learning, and fate -- Thinking -- Speaking adaptively -- Are babies human? -- Feet first, brains later -- Demanding control -- The global organism
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 518 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674000698
- Lccn
- 99032252
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)41528382
- (OCoLC)ocm41528382
- Label
- Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution, Alison Jolly
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 462-499) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The evolution of purpose -- Life, sex, and cooperation -- Sex: why bother? -- Courtship and choice -- Calculating love -- Women in the wild -- Lemurs, monkeys, apes -- Human apes -- Apish intelligence -- Organic wholes -- A gendered body -- Instinct, learning, and fate -- Thinking -- Speaking adaptively -- Are babies human? -- Feet first, brains later -- Demanding control -- The global organism
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 518 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674000698
- Lccn
- 99032252
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)41528382
- (OCoLC)ocm41528382
Subject
- Evolutionary psychology
- Femmes -- Évolution
- Hominidae
- Hominidae
- Hominidae
- Hominidae
- Homme -- Évolution
- Homme -- Évolution
- Human evolution
- Human evolution
- Intellect
- Intellect
- Intelligence
- Evolutie
- Intelligentie
- Primaten
- Sekseverschillen
- Sex
- Sex
- Social evolution
- Social evolution
- Women
- Women
- Women -- Evolution
- Women -- Evolution
- Évolution sociale
- Évolution sociale
- Intelligence
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