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Human characteristics : evolutionary perspectives on human mind and kind / edited by Henrik Høgh-Olesen, Jan Tønnesvang and Preben Bertelsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology.
- Human evolution.
- Cognitive science.
- Genre:
- Libros electrónicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Every once in a while, we have to reconsider the perennial questions concerning human nature: What are the special human behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures that makes us particularly human ? The field of evolution, psychology and cognitive science is the most expanding, inter-disciplinary area for the time being, uniting different sciences under the same evolutionary paradigm and keeping them occupied by the same eternal questions stated above. Relevant data and theory...
- Contents:
- section I. Evolution and cognition
- comparative and developmental perspectives
- section II. Human sociality, morality, and religiosity
- section III. Human sexuality and mating strategies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-19008-3
- 9786612190087
- 1-4438-0475-4
- OCLC:
- 432428777
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