
The Origin of Teepees
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Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas, but perhaps this pride is misplaced. Perhaps ideas have us. After all, ideas do appear to have a life of their own. And it is they, not us, that benefit most when they are spread. Many biologists have already come to the opinion that our genes are selfish entities, tricking us into helping them to reproduce. Is it the same with our ideas?
Jonnie Hughes, a science writer and documentary filmmaker, investigates the evolution of ideas in order to find out. Adopting the role of a cultural Charles Darwin, Hughes heads off, with his brother in tow, across the Midwest to observe firsthand the natural history of ideas?the patterns of their variation, inheritance, and selection in the cultural landscape. In place of Darwin's oceanic islands, Hughes visits the ?mind islands? of Native American tribes. Instead of finches, Hughes searches for signs of natural selection among the tepees.
With a knack for finding the humor in the quirks of the American cultural landscape, Hughes takes us on a tour from the Mall of America in Minneapolis to what he calls the ?maul? of America?Custer's last stand?stopping at road-sides and discoursing on sandwiches, the shape of cowboy hats, the evolution of barn roofs, the 28.99 wording of jokes, the wearing of moustaches, and, of course, the telling features from tepees of different tribes. Original, witty, and engaging, On the Origin of Tepees offers a fresh way of understanding both our ideas and ourselves.
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- Intro
- Description
- Back Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Only Human
- Chapter 1: Weirdoes
- Chapter 2: The New World
- Part II: What's the Idea?
- Chapter 3: Evolution, Minnesota
- Chapter 4: Variation, North Dakota
- Chapter 5: Inheritance, South Dakota
- Chapter 6: Selection, Wyoming
- Part III: History Lessen
- Chapter 7: Mind Out?
- Chapter 8: How the West Was Won I: Finding the Edges
- Chapter 9: How the West Was Won II: June 25, 1876
- Chapter 10: How the West Was Won III: America Making
- Part IV: Who's Driving?
- Chapter 11: A Beginner's Guide to Tepee Taxonomy
- Chapter 12: Bound by Imagination
- Chapter 13: The Genes of Culture
- Part V: Mysteries Solved
- Chapter 14: The Past
- Chapter 15: The Present
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Footnotes
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