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Cognition and culture. --- Human beings. --- Behavior evolution.

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"To imagine--to see what is not there--is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the picture in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy, and history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps--from the first Homo sapiens to the present day. Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science, Fernández-Armesto explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalizing glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. Unearthing historical evidence, he begins by reconstructing the thoughts of our Paleolithic ancestors to reveal the subtlety and profundity of the thinking of early humans. A masterful paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker, Out of Our Minds shows that bad ideas are often more influential than good ones; that the oldest recoverable thoughts include some of the best; that ideas of Western origin often issued from exchanges with the wider world; and that the pace of innovative thinking is under threat." --

Thought and thinking --- Cognition and culture --- Intellectual life --- Civilization

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"Toute sa vie, l'être humain ne cesse d'apprendre au contact d'autrui, d'imiter, de reproduire, de recombiner différentes idées ou savoir-faire - et de les transmettre. Depuis les premiers chasseurs-cueilleurs jusqu'à l'invention d'Internet, le long processus d'évolution de notre espèce ne peut'expliquer qu'à la lumière de cette spécificité que l'on appelle l'intelligence collective, ou plus simplement la culture. Privé de l'accès à cette source de savoir accumulée au fil des générations et adaptée aux environnements locaux, l'être humain serait incapable de survivre. Passant de l'anthropologie et de l'histoire à la psychologie, la biologie ou encore la génétique, Joseph Henrich démontre de manière magistrale et convaincante pourquoi l'être humain est la seule espèce à avoir atteint un tel degré de développement."

Homme --- Intelligence sociale. --- Civilisation. --- Évolution. --- Human evolution. --- Social evolution. --- Behavior evolution. --- Cognition and culture. --- Human evolution --- Social evolution --- Behavior evolution --- Cognition and culture --- Évolution (biologie) --- Anthropologie --- Intelligence collective dans les organisations --- Psychologie sociale --- Human behavior --- Evolution (Biology) --- Anthropology --- Social psychology --- Swarm intelligence