Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Book Review
  • Published:

A question of the evolution of culture

Nature volume 292, pages 567–568 (1981)Cite this article

Man, The Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution.

By Peter J. Wilson. Pp.185. ISBN 0-300-02514-9. (Yale University Press: 1980.) $12.95, £9.10.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Lecturer in Biological Anthropology in the Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra

    Robert Attenborough

Authors
  1. Robert Attenborough
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Attenborough, R. A question of the evolution of culture. Nature 292, 567–568 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/292567a0

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/292567a0

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing