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- Description
- 1 online resource (liii, 351 pages :) : illustrations, map.
- Series Statement
- Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
- Uniform Title
- How We Became Human (Online)
- Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Coevolution and mimesis / William H. Durham -- Genes and mimesis : structural patterns in Darwinism and mimetic theory / Paul Dumouchel -- Maladaptation, counterintuitiveness and symbolism : the challenge of mimetic theory to evolutionary thinking / Pierpaolo Antonello -- Convergence between mimetic theory and imitation research / Scott Garrels -- The deepest principle of life : neurobiology and the psychology of desire / William B. Hurlbut -- The three Rs : retaliation, revenge, and (especially) redirected aggression / David P. Barash -- Violent origins : mimetic rivalry in Darwinian evolution / Melvin Konner -- Mechanisms of internal cohesion : scapegoating and parochial altruism / Zoey Reeve -- A mediatory theory of hominization / Giuseppe Fornari -- Animal scapegoating at Çatalhöyük / Rene Girard -- Self-transcendence and tangled hierarchies in Çatalhöyük / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Rethinking the Neolithic revolution : symbolism and sacrifice at Göbekli Tepe / Paul Gifford and Pierpaolo Antonello -- Intrinsic or situated religiousness : a Girardian solution / Warren S. Brown, James Van Slyke, and Scott Garrels -- Homo religiosus in mimetic perspective : an evolutionary dialogue / Paul Gifford.
- OCLC
- ssj0001546408
- Title
How We Became Human [electronic resource] : Mimetic Theory and the Science of Evolutionary Origins / edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford.
- Imprint
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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Gifford, Paul.
Antonello, Pierpaolo.
Project Muse.
- LCCN
2015930572