Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution / Alison Jolly.

  • Jolly, Alison.
Date:
1999
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

Physical description

518 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents

The evolution of purpose -- Life, sex, and cooperation -- Sex: why bother? -- Courtship and choice -- Calculating love -- Women in the wild -- Lemurs, monkeys, apes -- Human apes -- Apish intelligence -- Organic wholes -- A gendered body -- Instinct, learning, and fate -- Thinking -- Speaking adaptively -- Are babies human? -- Feet first, brains later -- Demanding control -- The global organism.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 462-499) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    GN281 1999J6l
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0674000692