Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution

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Label

Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution

Title remainder

sex and intelligence in human evolution

Statement of responsibility

Alison Jolly

Creator

• Jolly, Alison

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

Language

eng

Summary

• 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

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

• 2000 L-962
• GN 281

NLM item number

J75L 1999