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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2002.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798031006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Introduction: framing the problem; I Questioning the "scientized" image; II Why we primates are not "game theorists"; III The selecting of Homo sapiens; IV Brain matters; V A thirst for meaning; VI How experience shapes the brain; VII "Who am I?" - where biology and culture meet; VIII History, the story of meanings through time; IX Humankind crosses the Rubicon, 1900-2000; X Conflict: control or reconciliation?; XI The search for autonomy within community; Notes; Bibliography; Index
