Culture and the Course of Human Evolution
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About the Author Gary Tomlinson is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Music and the Humanities and director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. The most recent of his many books is A Million Years of Music. Read more
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Tomlinson's latest book is a superb synthesis of biological evolution and culture to offer new perspectives on human evolution. Semiotics plays a major role in his views, similar to Deacon's "The Symbolic Species". His distinction between information and sign is especially central to the ideas presented later in the book. Not everyone will agree with him on these definitions and views, however, Tomlinson always acknowledges alternative conjectures with up to date references. The book is rather short and concise, though well-written and dense in terms of information and big ideas.