03460nam 2200589 450 991082279600332120230807204402.00-19-938647-10-19-938646-3(CKB)2670000000570633(EBL)1814965(SSID)ssj0001348374(PQKBManifestationID)12612710(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001348374(PQKBWorkID)11372230(PQKB)11680162(MiAaPQ)EBC1814965(Au-PeEL)EBL1814965(CaPaEBR)ebr10952663(CaONFJC)MIL650464(OCoLC)896861853(EXLCZ)99267000000057063320141024h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA talent for friendship an evolutionary view of a remarkable trait /John Edward TerrellOxford, [England] ;New York, New York :Oxford University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-938645-5 1-322-19184-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; A Talent for Friendship; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: What Makes Us Human?; 1. Being Human; 2. Baron von Pufendorf; 3. Ghost Theories; 4. The Secret Lives of Lou, Laurence, and Leslie; PART TWO: The Archaeology of Friendship; 5. Suddenly All Was Chaos; 6. A Wimpy Idea; 7. In the Footsteps of A. B. Lewis; 8. Confronting the Obvious; 9. The Archaeology of Friendship; 10. The Sign of the Sea Turtle; 11. Drawing Conclusions; PART THREE: Selfish Desires; 12. Houston, We've Had a Problem; 13. You Can't Get There from Here14. The Wizard of Down House15. The Numbers Game; PART FOUR: The Social Baseline; 16. Animal Cooperation; 17. The Question of Animal Awareness; 18. Babies and Big Brains; 19. Mission Impossible; PART FIVE: Social Being; 20. Alone in a Crowd; 21. A State of Mind; 22. It's Who You Know; 23. Bloodlust, Fear, and Other Emotions; PART SIX: Principles to Live By; 24. The Lady or the Tiger?; 25. A Kiss Is Just a Kiss?; 26. Friend or Facebook?; 27. What Was the Garden of Eden Like?; 28. The Strength of Weak Ties?; 29. Meet Me on the Marae?; 30. Being in a Family Way?Appendix-How to Host a Marae EncounterNotes; IndexThis lively, provocative text presents a new way to understand friendship. Professor John Terrell argues that the ability to make friends is an evolved human trait not unlike our ability to walk upright on two legs or our capacity for speech and complex abstract reasoning. Terrell charts how this trait has evolved by investigating two unique functions of the human brain: the ability to remake the outside world to suit our collective needs, and our capacity to escape into our own inner thoughts and imagine how things might and ought to be. The text is richly illustrated and written in an engagiFriendshipFriendship.302.34 PSY031000PSY008000bisacshTerrell John1597359MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822796003321A talent for friendship4083978UNINA