LEADER 03467nam 2200541 450 001 9910796804703321 005 20221223191900.0 010 $a0-300-23517-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300235173 035 $a(CKB)4100000004837206 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5387927 035 $a(DE-B1597)536102 035 $a(OCoLC)1035556215 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300235173 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7022710 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7022710 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004837206 100 $a20221223d2018 ky 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMinds make societies $ehow cognition explains the world humans create /$fPascal Boyer 210 1$aNew Haven, Connecticut :$cYale University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (372 pages) 311 0 $a0-300-22345-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [295]-343) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Human Societies through the Lens of Nature --$tSix Problems in Search of a New Science --$tOne. What Is the Root of Group Conflict? Why "Tribalism" Is Not an Urge but a Computation --$tTwo. What Is Information For? Sound Minds, Odd Beliefs, and the Madness of Crowds --$tThree. Why Are There Religions?...And Why Are They Such a Recent Thing? --$tFour. What Is the Natural Family? From Sex to Kinship to Dominance --$tFive. How Can Societies Be Just? How Cooperative Minds Create Fairness and Trade, and the Apparent Conflict between Them --$tSix. Can Human Minds Understand Societies? Coordination, Folk Sociology, and Natural Politics --$tConclusion: Cognition and Communication Create Traditions --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aA watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies "There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature." Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles. In fascinating, thought-provoking passages, he explores questions such as, Why is there conflict between groups? Why do people believe low-value information such as rumors? Why are there religions? What is social justice? What explains morality? Boyer provides a new picture of cultural transmission that draws on the pragmatics of human communication, the constructive nature of memory in human brains, and human motivation for group formation and cooperation. 606 $aCognition and culture 606 $aCognition 606 $aSocial evolution 606 $aSocialization 615 0$aCognition and culture. 615 0$aCognition. 615 0$aSocial evolution. 615 0$aSocialization. 676 $a153 700 $aBoyer$b Pascal$0533977 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796804703321 996 $aMinds make societies$93718840 997 $aUNINA