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His books engage deeply with scientific ideas, blending anthropology, biology, and social sciences to illuminate the forces shaping humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for those interested in \u003cem\u003eeducation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003escience and nature\u003c\/em\u003e, Boyd’s writing provokes thoughtful reflection on what it means to be human and challenges conventional assumptions with rich, accessible scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-different-kind-of-animal-by-robert-boyd-9780691177731","title":"A Different Kind of Animal","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species. Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability—people are just smarter than all the rest. But in this compelling book, Robert Boyd argues that culture—our ability to learn from each other—has been the essential ingredient of our remarkable success. \u003cem\u003eA Different Kind of Animal\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that while people are smart, we are not nearly smart enough to have solved the vast array of problems that confronted our species as it spread across the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the past two million years, culture has evolved to enable human populations to accumulate superb local adaptations that no individual could ever have invented on their own. 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With comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of human genetics, recent fossil discoveries, race, and modern human behaviour, it is clear why the Tenth Edition remains, in primatologist Sarah Hrdy's words, \"the text of choice for teaching physical anthropology and human evolutionary biology.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew 3D models of select human and non-human primate crania and anatomy, as well as fossil crania of key hominins, invite students to explore specimens in a tactile way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596601835756,"sku":"9781324061748","price":283.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/96bde5e19362df33cd087e99ef35bb44.jpg?v=1777940891"},{"product_id":"not-by-genes-alone-by-robert-boyd-9780226712123","title":"Not by Genes Alone","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. 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Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economics—and building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry them—Richerson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn abandoning the nature-versus-nurture debate as fundamentally misconceived, \u003ci\u003eNot by Genes Alone\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly original and groundbreaking theory of the role of culture in evolution and a book to be reckoned with for generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I continue to be surprised by the number of educated people (many of them biologists) who think that offering explanations for human behaviour in terms of culture somehow disproves the suggestion that human behaviour can be explained in Darwinian evolutionary terms. 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