LEADER 04475nam 22006135 450 001 9910364945903321 005 20200706153002.0 010 $a3-030-32984-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-32984-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000010011884 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5990097 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-32984-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010011884 100 $a20191205d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aModernity and Cultural Decline$b[electronic resource] $eA Biobehavioral Perspective /$fby Matthew Alexandar Sarraf, Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie, Colin Feltham 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (314 pages) 311 $a3-030-32983-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Defending Biobehavioral Science -- 3. Medieval and Modern Worlds -- 4. Discontent with Modernity -- 5. Enlightenment Never -- 6. Making the Case for Mutation Accumulation -- 7. The Social Epistasis Amplification Model: A Diachronic Test and Expansion of Theoretical Foundations -- 8. Biocosmic Pessimism. 330 $a ?Modernity and Cultural Decline is a breathtaking scientific analysis of the rise?and now the decline?of Western civilization. We should be interested?and forewarned.? ?Seymour Itzkoff, Professor Emeritus of Education, Smith College, USA ?The book puts human nature, genes and evolution back into historiography and sociology. This is the real thing, sharp minds . . . offering testable hypotheses based on quantitative models.? ?Frank Salter, former researcher of the Max Planck Society, Germany ?A profoundly important book. One can only hope that society finds the will to engage with these vital and consequential ideas.? ?David Skrbina, Senior Lecturer, University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA ?Modernity and Cultural Decline is a supremely bold, thoroughgoing biological account of often unacknowledged . . . negative impacts of modernity. This is the sort of science book of which we need more.? ?Steve Moxon, independent researcher, author of Sex Difference Explained (2016) This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded?including large gains in wealth, longevity, and (possibly) happiness?it has occurred together with the appearance of a variety of serious problems. Chief among these are probable losses in subjective existential purpose and increases in psychopathology. A highly original theory of the ultimate basis of these trends is advanced, which unites prior work in psychometrics and evolutionary science. This theory builds on the social epistasis amplification model to argue that genetic and epigenetic changes in modernizing and modernized populations, stemming from shifts in selective pressures related to industrialization, have lowered human fitness and wellness. . 606 $aBiological psychology 606 $aPsychology, Pathological 606 $aHuman genetics 606 $aSocial sciences?Philosophy 606 $aBiological Psychology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20020 606 $aPsychopathology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20160 606 $aHuman Genetics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/B12008 606 $aSocial Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22140 615 0$aBiological psychology. 615 0$aPsychology, Pathological. 615 0$aHuman genetics. 615 0$aSocial sciences?Philosophy. 615 14$aBiological Psychology. 615 24$aPsychopathology. 615 24$aHuman Genetics. 615 24$aSocial Theory. 676 $a306.01 700 $aSarraf$b Matthew Alexandar$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01050680 702 $aWoodley of Menie$b Michael Anthony$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aFeltham$b Colin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910364945903321 996 $aModernity and Cultural Decline$92480675 997 $aUNINA