In search of human nature /

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark takes the most recent data from a dozen or more fields, and works it together with clarifying anecdotes and thought-provoking images to challenge conventio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clark, Mary E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Temas:
Human evolution.
Human behavior.
Evolution (Biology)
Hominidae
Behavior
Biological Evolution
Homme > Évolution.
Comportement humain.
Évolution (Biologie)
human behavior.
evolution.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : framing the problem
  • 1. Questioning the "scientized" image
  • 2. Why we primates are not "game theorists"
  • 3. The selecting of homo sapiens
  • 4. Brain matters
  • 5. A thirst for meaning
  • 6. How experience shapes the brain
  • 7. "Who am I : where biology and culture meet
  • 8. History, the story of meanings through time
  • 9. Humankind crosses the Rubicon, 1900-2000
  • 10. Conflict : control or reconciliation
  • 11. The search for autonomy within community.

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