In search of human nature / Mary E. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Mary E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human evolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (577 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 conventional Western beliefs with hopeful new insights. Balancing the theories of cutting-edge neuroscience with the insights of primitive mythologies, Mary Clark provides down-to-earth suggestions for peacefully resolving global problems. Human Nature builds up a coherent, and above all po

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (455-488) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-44768-X

1-134-44769-8

1-280-13796-7

0-203-98713-6

OCLC:

475953662