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Clark Mary E. |
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Titolo |
In search of human nature / / Mary E. Clark |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-44769-8 |
1-280-13796-7 |
0-203-98713-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (577 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human evolution |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (455-488) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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