Chapter 7. Human evolution
-
Paulo C. Abrantes
Abstract
This paper presents a range of approaches going from the complete rejection of any role culture could have played in human evolution, to the other extreme in the range in which the very dichotomy between nature and culture is rejected. We will also go through middle-range standpoints, such as that of gene-culture coevolution theorists, that attach to culture a central role in human evolution. The clash between these approaches is still going on in the contemporary scene, with implications for the way boundaries are set inside disciplines such as Anthropology, as well as for conceiving how it is related to Psychology and Biology, among other disciplines. We will show that some debates in the Philosophy of Biology, concerning an extension of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution, have contributed to clarify the issues, and have been followed by some anthropologists who are also concerned by the way human development and evolution are separately addressed in orthodox approaches.
Abstract
This paper presents a range of approaches going from the complete rejection of any role culture could have played in human evolution, to the other extreme in the range in which the very dichotomy between nature and culture is rejected. We will also go through middle-range standpoints, such as that of gene-culture coevolution theorists, that attach to culture a central role in human evolution. The clash between these approaches is still going on in the contemporary scene, with implications for the way boundaries are set inside disciplines such as Anthropology, as well as for conceiving how it is related to Psychology and Biology, among other disciplines. We will show that some debates in the Philosophy of Biology, concerning an extension of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution, have contributed to clarify the issues, and have been followed by some anthropologists who are also concerned by the way human development and evolution are separately addressed in orthodox approaches.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction. Crossing borderlines 1
- Chapter 1. Controversies in public and private on-line communication 5
- Chapter 2. The Paks Pact 29
- Chapter 3. Particularist understanding of CSR marketing visual arguments 53
- Chapter 4. Cognitive science and the controversy of anthropogenic climate change 75
- Chapter 5. ELEna 95
- Chapter 6. What is the meaning of biodiversity? 115
- Chapter 7. Human evolution 133
- Chapter 8. A historical controversy about politeness and public argument 155
- Chapter 9. Husserl’s phenomenology of inner time-consciousness and enactivism 177
- Chapter 10. Controversial images 199
- Chapter 11. The role and the impact of interdisciplinarity on the relational models of intervention in the doctor-patient communication 217
- Chapter 12. The pointer finger and the pilgrim shell 235
- Chapter 13. Science and democracy 255
- About the contributors 269
- Index 277
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction. Crossing borderlines 1
- Chapter 1. Controversies in public and private on-line communication 5
- Chapter 2. The Paks Pact 29
- Chapter 3. Particularist understanding of CSR marketing visual arguments 53
- Chapter 4. Cognitive science and the controversy of anthropogenic climate change 75
- Chapter 5. ELEna 95
- Chapter 6. What is the meaning of biodiversity? 115
- Chapter 7. Human evolution 133
- Chapter 8. A historical controversy about politeness and public argument 155
- Chapter 9. Husserl’s phenomenology of inner time-consciousness and enactivism 177
- Chapter 10. Controversial images 199
- Chapter 11. The role and the impact of interdisciplinarity on the relational models of intervention in the doctor-patient communication 217
- Chapter 12. The pointer finger and the pilgrim shell 235
- Chapter 13. Science and democracy 255
- About the contributors 269
- Index 277
