Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Safina, Carl - 2021
by Safina, Carl
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
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Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But this book reveals cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too come to understand yourself as an individual within a particular community that does things in specific ways, that has traditions. Alongside genes, culture is a second form of inheritance, passed through generations as pools of learned knowledge. As situations change, social learning - culture - allows behaviors to adjust much faster than genes can adapt.
Becoming Wild brings readers into intimate proximity with various nonhuman individuals in their free-living communities. It presents a revelatory account of how animals function beyond our usual view. Safina shows that for non-humans and humans alike, culture comprises the answers to the question, 'How do we live here?' It unites individuals within a group identity. But cultural groups often seek to avoid, or even be hostile toward, other factions. By showing that this is true across species, Safina illuminates why human cultural tensions remain maddeningly intractable despite the arbitrariness of many of our differences. Becoming Wild takes readers behind the curtain of life on Earth, to witness from a new vantage point the most world-saving of perceptions: how we are all connected. A New York Times Notable Books of 2020.
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- ISBN 10 1250787610
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- Publisher Picador
- Date Published 2021
- Keywords Biology, Ecology, Behavior
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