TY  - BOOK
AU  - Isbell,Lynne A.
TI  - The fruit, the tree, and the serpent: why we see so well 
SN  - 9780674054042
AV  - GN281.4 .I82 2009eb
U1  - 599.93/8 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Primates
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Vision
KW  - Eye
KW  - Snakes
KW  - Fear
KW  - Serpents
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Visual perception
KW  - Biological Evolution
KW  - Visual Perception
KW  - Vision, Ocular
KW  - Homme
KW  - Évolution
KW  - Œil
KW  - Peur
KW  - Évolution (Biologie)
KW  - Perception visuelle
KW  - sight (sense)
KW  - aat
KW  - fear
KW  - evolution
KW  - Primates (order)
KW  - visual perception
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Physical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - fast
KW  - Hominisation
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Sehen
KW  - Schlangen
KW  - Angst
KW  - ram
KW  - Oeil
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-199) and index; Primate Biogeography -- Why Did Primates Evolve? -- Primate Vision -- Origins of Modern Predators -- Vision and Fear-- Venomous Snakes and Anthropoid Primates -- Why Only Primates? -- Testing the Snake Detection Theory -- Epilogue : Implications for Humans; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - The worldwide prominence of snakes in religion, myth, and folklore underscores our deep connection to the serpent -- but why, when so few of us have firsthand experience? The surprising answer, this book suggests, may lie in the singular impact of snakes on primate evolution. Predation pressure from snakes, Lynne Isbell tells us, is ultimately responsible for the superior vision and large brains of primates -- and for a critical aspect of human evolution. Drawing on extensive research, Isbell further speculates how snakes could have influenced the development of a distinctively human behavior: our ability to point for the purpose of directing attention. A social activity (no one points when alone) dependent on fast and accurate localization, pointing would have reduced deadly snake bites among our hominin ancestors. It might have also figured in later human behavior: snakes, this book eloquently argues, may well have given bipedal hominins, already equipped with a non-human primate communication system, the evolutionary nudge to point to communicate for social good, a critical step toward the evolution of language, and all that followed. --publisher description
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