LEADER 03741nam 2200661 450 001 9910824111003321 005 20230126213445.0 010 $a0-231-54039-6 024 7 $a10.7312/bark17188 035 $a(CKB)3710000000473233 035 $a(EBL)4414131 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001530041 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12645937 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530041 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11523440 035 $a(PQKB)11096574 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001285118 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4579940 035 $a(DE-B1597)458241 035 $a(OCoLC)922528352 035 $a(OCoLC)979742554 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231540391 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4579940 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11242187 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL838506 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000473233 100 $a20160824h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond biofatalism $ehuman nature for an evolving world /$fGillian Barker 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-17188-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. Human Nature and the Limits of Human Possibility --$t2. The Cost of Change --$t3. Thinking About Change and Stability in Living Systems --$t4. Lessons from Development, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology --$t5. Human Possibilities --$t6. Valuing Change --$t7. Choosing Environments --$t8. What Is Feasible? --$t9. Evolutionary Psychology and Human Possibilities --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aBeyond Biofatalism is a lively and penetrating response to the idea that evolutionary psychology reveals human beings to be incapable of building a more inclusive, cooperative, and egalitarian society. Considering the pressures of climate change, unsustainable population growth, increasing income inequality, and religious extremism, this attitude promises to stifle the creative action we require before we even try to meet these threats. Beyond Biofatalism provides the perspective we need to understand that better societies are not only possible but actively enabled by human nature. Gillian Barker appreciates the methods and findings of evolutionary psychologists, but she considers their work against a broader background to show human nature is surprisingly open to social change. Like other organisms, we possess an active plasticity that allows us to respond dramatically to certain kinds of environmental variation, and we engage in niche construction, modifying our environment to affect others and ourselves. Barker uses related research in social psychology, developmental biology, ecology, and economics to reinforce this view of evolved human nature, and philosophical exploration to reveal its broader implications. The result is an encouraging foundation on which to build better approaches to social, political, and other institutional changes that could enhance our well-being and chances for survival. 606 $aEvolutionary psychology 606 $aHuman evolution 606 $aBehavior evolution 606 $aSocial evolution 615 0$aEvolutionary psychology. 615 0$aHuman evolution. 615 0$aBehavior evolution. 615 0$aSocial evolution. 676 $a155.7 700 $aBarker$b Gillian$01682386 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824111003321 996 $aBeyond biofatalism$94052450 997 $aUNINA