Kevin Laland, Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind (Princeton, NJ and Woodstock,: Princeton University Press, 2017), 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0-69115-118-2. $35.00/£27.95 hbk.

Authors

  • Anders Klostergaard Petersen University of Aarhus

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.34146

Keywords:

Evolution, Culture, Cognition

Abstract

Kevin Laland, Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind (Princeton, NJ and Woodstock,: Princeton University Press, 2017), 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0-69115-118-2. $35.00/£27.95 hbk.

Author Biography

  • Anders Klostergaard Petersen, University of Aarhus

    Anders Klostergaard Petersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark

References

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Bickerton, D. 2009. Adam’s Tongue. How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans. New York: Hill and Wang.

Dobzhansky, T. 1973. “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”. The American Biology Teacher 35(3): 125–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/4444260

Henrich, J. 2016. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter. Princeton, NJ and Woodstock: Princeton University Press.

Tomasello, M. 2009. Why We Cooperate. Based on the 2008 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford. Cambridge, MA and London: A Boston Review Book/The MIT Press.

Turchin, P. 2015. Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth. Beresta Books, http://peterturchin.com/ultrasociety/

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Published

2018-03-29

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1-2 (2016): Special Issue: Digital Humanities, Cognitive Historiography , and the Study of Religion

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Petersen, A. K. (2018). Kevin Laland, Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind (Princeton, NJ and Woodstock,: Princeton University Press, 2017), 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0-69115-118-2. $35.00/£27.95 hbk. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 3(1-2), 227-231. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.34146