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The Lucifer Principle : a Scientific Expedition Into The Forces Of History /
The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that "evil" is a by-product of nature's strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. In a s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Who is Lucifer?; The Clint Eastwood Conundrum; The Whole is Bigger Than the Sum of its Parts; The Chinese Cultural Revolution; Bloodstains in Paradise; Mother Nature, the Bloody Bitch; Women-Not the Peaceful Creatures You Think; Fighting for the Privilege to Procreate; The Greed of Genes; Why Humans Self-Destruct; The Theory of Individual Selection and Its Flaws; Superorganism; Isolation-the Ultimate Poison; Even Heroes Are Insecure; Loving the Child Within Is Not Enough; One Man's God is Another Man's Devil; Us versus Them
- The Value of Having an EnemyThe Perceptual Trick That Manufactures Devils; How Hatred Builds the Walls of Society's Bungalow; Man-Inventor of the Invisible World; From Genes to Memes; The Nose of a Rat and the Human Mind-a Brief History of the Rise of Memes; How Wrong Ideas Can Be Right; The Village of the Sorcerers and the Riddle of Control; The Modern Medical Shaman; Control and the Urge to Pray; Power and the Invisible World; Einstein and the Eskimos; The Mysteries of the Evolutionary Learning Machine; The Connectionist Explanation of the Mass Mind's Dreams; Society as a Neural Net
- The Expendability of MalesHow Men Are Society's Dice; Is Pitching a Genetically Acquired Skill?; Oliver Cromwell-the Rodent Instincts Don a Disguise; Ideology is Theft; The Invisible World as a Weapon; The True Route to Utopia; Why Men Embrace Ideas-and Why Ideas Embrace Men; Righteous Indignation = Greed for Real Estate; Shiites; Poetry and the Lust for Power; When Memes Collide-the Pecking Order of Nations; Superior Chickens Make Friends; Wordviews as the Welding Torch of the Hierarchical Chain; Who are the Next Barbarians?; The Barbarian Principle; Are There Killer Cultures?
- Violence in South America and AfricaThe Importance of Hugging; The Puzzle of Complacency; Poverty with Prestige Is Better Than Affluent Disgrace; Why Prosperity Will Not Bring Peace; The Secret Meaning of "Freedom," "Peace," and "Justice"; The Rise and Fall of the American Empire; The Victorian Decline and the Fall of America; Scapegoats and Sexual Hysteria; Laboratory Rats and the Oil Crisis; Why Nations Pretend to Be Blind; How the Pecking Order Reshapes the Mind; Perceptual Shutdown and the Future of America; The Myth of Stress; Tennis Time and the Mental Clock; The Luciferian Paradox
- The Lucifer PrincipleEpilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author