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Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution

Alison Jolly

Includes information on bonobos, chimpanzees, competition, cooperation, Charles Darwin, evolution, food and food supply, genes, gorillas, harems, kinship, language, lemurs, Japanese macaques, mating and mates, memes, menopause, monkeys, monogamy, natural selection, offspring, orangutans, poetry, sex, societies/social groups, tools and toolmaking, violence, war/warfare, etc.

ScienceScience · high confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceGoogle Books: Science -> ScienceKeyword Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismScience & Discovery

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyMajor1999FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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    • Charles Darwin60%

  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    75 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.