The Origins Of Human Nature
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The Primate Origins of Human Nature
Author | : Carel P. Van Schaik |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2016-01-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780470147634 |
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The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans. However, unlike similar books, it strives to define the human species relative to our living and extinct relatives, and thus highlights uniquely derived human features. The book features a truly multi-disciplinary, multi-theory, and comparative species approach to subjects not usually presented in textbooks focused on humans, such as the evolution of culture, life history, parenting, and social organization.
The Origins of Human Nature
Author | : David F. Bjorklund,Anthony D. Pellegrini |
Publsiher | : Amer Psychological Assn |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1557988781 |
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The origins of human nature offers readers the first book-length attempt to define the field of evolutionary developmental psychology -- the application of the principle of natural selection to explain contemporary human development. The authors point out that an evolutionary -- developmental perspective allows one to view gene -- environment interactions, the significance of individual differences, and the role of behavior and development in evolution in much greater depth. The authors also focus on how an evolutionary perspective can foster a better understanding of human development and how developmental processes may have influenced the course of human evolution. Of particular interest are chapters that explore factors influencing parenting and other aspects of family life; the role of play; and the interacting roles of an extended juvenile period, a big brain, and a complex social structure in human cognitive evolution. The authors present a hybrid approach to evolution and development, pointing out that though underlying assumptions held by evolutionary and developmental psychologists have been at odds, each field has much to offer the other.
The Red Queen
Author | : Matt Ridley |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-02-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780062200716 |
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“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Genome Brilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love. Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture—including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband. The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.
Hierarchy History and Human Nature
Author | : Donald E. Brown |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816510601 |
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"Here is a book that I can strongly recommend for a variety of reasons. It is well written, it is scholarly, but its greatest appeal lies in the posing of an important question and in the offering of a satisfying (to this reviewer, at least) answer."ÑJournal of Historical Geography "This is an intriguing and stimulating study of historical differences in the indigenous historiography of parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe."ÑAmerican Anthropologist."
The Evolution of Human Nature
Author | : Charles Judson Herrick |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Evolution |
ISBN | : UCAL:B5022466 |
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Beyond Evolution
Author | : Anthony O'Hear |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1997-10-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780191519666 |
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Anthony O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behaviour in terms of evolution. He maintains, controversially, that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to the human world. Because of our reflectiveness and our rationality we take on goals and ideals which cannot be justified in terms of survival-promotion or reproductive advantage. O'Hear examines the nature of human self-consciousness, and argues that evolutionary theory cannot give a satisfactory account of such distinctive facets of human life as the quest for knowledge, moral sense, and the appreciation of beauty; in these we transcend our biological origins. It is our rationality that allows each of us to go beyond not only our biological but also our cultural inheritance: as the author says in the Preface, 'we are prisoners neither of our genes nor of the ideas we encounter as we each make our personal and individual way through life'.
Conversations on Human Nature
Author | : Agustín Fuentes,Aku Visala |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2016-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781315431529 |
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Recent empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and the development of human culture has sparked heated debates about what it means to be human and how knowledge about humans from the sciences and humanities should be understood. Conversations on Human Nature, featuring 20 interviews with leading scholars in biology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and theology, brings these debates to life for teachers, students, and general readers. The book-outlines the basic scientific, philosophical and theological issues involved in understanding human nature;-organizes material from the various disciplines under four broad headings: (1) evolution, brains and human nature; (2) biocultural human nature; (3) persons, minds and human nature, (4) religion, theology and human nature; -concludes with Fuentes and Visala's discussion of what researchers into human nature agree on, what they disagree on, and what we need to learn to resolve those differences.
Essential Building Blocks of Human Nature
Author | : Ulrich J. Frey,Charlotte Störmer,Kai P. Willführ |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2010-11-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642139680 |
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To understand why we humans are as we are, it is necessary to look at the essential building blocks that comprise our nature. The foundations of this structure are our evolutionary origins as primates and our social roots. Upon these rest features such as our emotions, language and aesthetic preferences, with our self-perceptions, self-deceptions and thirst for knowledge right at the top. The unifying force holding these blocks together is evolutionary theory. Evolution provides a deeper understanding of human nature and, in particular, of the common roots of these different perspectives. To build a reliable and coherent model of man, leading authors from fields as diverse as primatology, anthropology, neurobiology and philosophy have joined forces to present essays each describing their own expert perspective. Together they provide a convincing and complete picture of our own human nature.