In search of human nature / / Mary E. Clark

• Autore: Clark Mary E.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (577 p.)
• Disciplina: 599.93/8
• Soggetto topico: Human evolution
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (455-488) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: In search of human nature
• ISBN: 1-134-44768-X; 1-134-44769-8; 1-280-13796-7; 0-203-98713-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783637203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II