Becoming Wild
How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina.
Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through a look at the lives of individuals in different today’s animal societies. Carl Safina brings a fresh understanding of what is going on continuously beyond humanity.
This book examines three cultures of non-human beings in some of the wildest places left on Earth. You will also experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community.
You are also the person you are not just by genes; Your culture is a second form of inheritance. You receive it from thousands of individuals, from the storehouse of knowledge passed down through generations like an eternal torch. Your culture also changes and evolves. The light of knowledge needs to be adjusted as situations change, so learning capacity, especially social learning, allows behaviors to adjust much more quickly than it would alone. genes can adapt.
