Becoming Wild
How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 400
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781250787613
- Utgivelsesår: 2021
- Bidragsyter: Safina, Carl
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020
"In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."¿The Washington Post
New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures¿what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them.
A New York Times Notable Books of 2020
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