Resumen de Back to the wild
Kemp examines what would happen to human if they grew up without culture. In the six million plus years since the human lineage split from chimpanzees, evolution has endowed them with many of the attributes that make them who they are: bipedalism, hairlessness, opposable thumbs, extended childhood and a large and complex brain. But these features alone do not make them human. Many of their defining traits--such as language, art, technology, storytelling and cooking--are transmitted culturally. Although products of their biology, they are not fully encoded by genes. Instead, they pass from generation to generation by social learning, evolving as they go
