A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, AsidesDelbert D. Thiessen Transaction Publishers - 151 páginas Many have seen the links between our minds and the universe, the common thread of our existence and the inevitability of our loves and hates. This book includes many demonstrations that our nature has been on the minds and lips of many - poets, play-wrights, philosophers, historians, novelists, kings, slaves, religious leaders, and the greatest of knaves. From Ralph Waldo Emerson to Arthur Schopenhauer, from Aldous Huxley to Arthur Conan Doyle, from Aristotle to William Shakespeare, the truths about ourselves have come tumbling out. In A Sociobiology Compendium, Del Thiessen mines the richness of biological investigations of human behavior comparing current views of human hehavior with expressions by non-scientists who have, in one way or another, touched the evolutionary strings of men and women. He begins each section with a brief account of biological notions of human behavior. The book shows in astonishing ways how the earlier thoughts of men and women from all cultures anticipate the biological observations about our being. A Sociobiology Compendium will be engaging reading for all psychologists, sociologists, and biologists. |
Conteúdo
Culture is in Our Evolution | 1 |
The Nature of Man | 7 |
Romantic Love Passion and the Price of Reproduction | 31 |
The Dark Side of Human Nature | 57 |
The Duality of the Human Brain | 69 |
The Historical Depth of Culture | 81 |
Creativity and the Pain of SelfDiscovery | 95 |
Masters of Death | 107 |
Trying to Go Beyond the Genes | 119 |
The Depth of Our Knowledge | 137 |
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A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Asides Delbert D. Thiessen Prévia não disponível - 1998 |
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The Evolution of Human Sociality: A Darwinian Conflict Perspective Stephen K. Sanderson Visualização parcial - 2001 |