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Kim Sterelny: The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique

Kim Sterelny: The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique Acta Biotheor (2014) 62:235–240 DOI 10.1007/s10441-014-9212-1 BOOK REVIEW Kim Sterelny: The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2012, 264 pp., Hardcover $35.00, ISBN 978-0-26-201679-7 Markus Wild Received: 7 February 2014 / Accepted: 11 February 2014 / Published online: 18 February 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 In 1985 The Smiths twittered as merry as larks: ‘‘From the ice-age to the dole-age, There is but one concern, I have just discovered: Some girls are bigger than others…’’. Good song, wrong theory. There is more than one single concern that drives the evolution of our species—or so Kim Sterelny argues convincingly in his rich and lucid book The Evolved Apprentice. The Evolved Apprentice offers nothing short of a theory of human nature by providing an account of human evolution from within natural science, yet from a philosophical point of view. Ever since the times of Aristotle, one of the core projects of philosophy concerns the question of human nature. The traditional response of philosophers to the problem of human nature has been an affirmation of the anthropological difference. The anthropological difference defines a quality that distinguishes all human beings from all non-human beings, particularly from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Biotheoretica Springer Journals

Kim Sterelny: The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique

Wild, Markus
Acta Biotheoretica , Volume 62 (2) – Feb 18, 2014
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Philosophy; Philosophy of Biology; Evolutionary Biology
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Acta Biotheor (2014) 62:235–240 DOI 10.1007/s10441-014-9212-1 BOOK REVIEW Kim Sterelny: The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2012, 264 pp., Hardcover $35.00, ISBN 978-0-26-201679-7 Markus Wild Received: 7 February 2014 / Accepted: 11 February 2014 / Published online: 18 February 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 In 1985 The Smiths twittered as merry as larks: ‘‘From the ice-age to the dole-age, There is but one concern, I have just discovered: Some girls are bigger than others…’’. Good song, wrong theory. There is more than one single concern that drives the evolution of our species—or so Kim Sterelny argues convincingly in his rich and lucid book The Evolved Apprentice. The Evolved Apprentice offers nothing short of a theory of human nature by providing an account of human evolution from within natural science, yet from a philosophical point of view. Ever since the times of Aristotle, one of the core projects of philosophy concerns the question of human nature. The traditional response of philosophers to the problem of human nature has been an affirmation of the anthropological difference. The anthropological difference defines a quality that distinguishes all human beings from all non-human beings, particularly from

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