Beyond Darwin: Cognitive Niches and Extra-Genetic Information

This book, written by a reputed researcher on evolution and animal behavior, is both difficult and rewarding, affording a new perspective on natural selection, contending that a great part of our species’ genetic evolution over the past few million years has been driven by culture: “the book explores the origins of the entangled bank of human culture and the animal root of the human mind” (p. 2). Most importantly, ....