The Pleistocene Social Contract —— Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution

----- 更新世的社会契约：人类进化中的文化与合作

ISBN: 9780197531389 出版年：2021 页码：203 Sterelny, Kim Oxford University Press

In this book, Kim Sterelny builds on his original account of the evolutionary development and interaction of human culture and cooperation, which he first presented in The Evolved Apprentice (2012). Sterelny sees human evolution not as hinging on a single key innovation, but as emerging from a positive feedback loop caused by smaller divergences from other great apes, including bipedal locomotion, better causal and social reasoning, reproductive cooperation, and changes in diet and foraging style. He advances this argument in The Pleistocene Social Contract with four key claims about cooperation, culture, and their interaction in human evolution, alongside a reading of the archaeological and ethnographical record.