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Автор: Camilo J.Cela-Conde, Francisco J.Ayala
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 0198567790
Количество страниц: 446
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 8.8 Мб
Каталожный номер: 41846
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Questions about human nature, about what it is that makes us distinctively human, have been raised since antiquity, at least since the dawn of the philosophical way of thinking in Classical Greece, four centuries before the Christian Era. Aristotle, the greatest biologist of antiquity, identified humans first and foremost as ‘‘animals,’’ but he called them ‘‘rational animals’’: the power of reason as the distinctive feature that separates us from the rest of the living world. It would be only many centuries later, with the publication of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, that an understanding could emerge of why we share so much of what we are with other animals, particularly with those closest to us, the primates.
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