The Trouble With Human Nature

The Trouble with Human Nature

• Author : Elizabeth D. Whitaker
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release Date : 2017-02-03
• Genre: Psychology
• Pages : 312
• ISBN 10 : 9781315451725
• Total Read : 76
• File Size : 5,6 Mb

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PART I Pathways to the present -- 1 Envisioning evolution: representations of humanness and causation -- 2 Origin stories: the co-evolution of human anatomy and sociality -- 3 Losses and gains: economic and health transitions since the Neolithic Revolution -- PART II Plasticity, identity, and health -- 4 Thicker than water: blood and milk in human evolution -- 5 Risk and responsibility: power and danger in individualized approaches to preventive health -- 6 Difference as destiny: race, sex, and culture -- PART III Sex and gender -- 7 Choosers and cheaters: the sexual/reproductive conflict hypothesis -- 8 Hoe and plow, pig and cow: work, family, and gender stratification -- 9 Tale of two-spirits: constructing gender and sexuality, aptitudes and inclinations -- PART IV Conflict and violence -- 10 Savage empathy: sources of competitiveness and cooperativeness, greed and generosity -- 11 Why stratify? Inequality and interpersonal violence -- 12 Peace and war: patterns and prevention of violent intergroup conflict -- Appendix: Life expectancy rate calculations -- Index.

The Trouble with Human Nature

• Author : Elizabeth D. Whitaker
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2017-02-27
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 336
• ISBN 10 : 113821194X
• Total Read : 83
• File Size : 15,9 Mb

The Trouble with Human Nature brings together biological and cross-cultural evidence to critically examine common preconceptions and challenge popular assumptions about human nature. It sets out to counter genetic and evolutionary myths about human variation and behavior, drawing on both biological and cultural anthropology, as well as from other disciplines including psychology, economics, and sociology. The chapters address the interrelated topics of health and disease, gender and other differences, and violence and conflict. The analysis calls into question the presumed natural foundation for social inequalities and sheds light on both the constraints and possibilities inherent in the human condition. This book provides students of human diversity and evolution with an excellent resource to better approach questions relating to human nature. It will also be of interest to those taking courses in social, cultural, and biological anthropology, as well as public health, medical anthropology, sociology, gender studies, psychology, and kinship studies.

The Trouble with Nature

• Author : Roger N. Lancaster
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release Date : 2003-05
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 466
• ISBN 10 : 0520236203
• Total Read : 92
• File Size : 15,8 Mb

Lancaster provides the disproof of evolutionary stories about men, women, and the nature of desire of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene.

The Laws of Human Nature

• Author : Robert Greene
• Publisher : Robert Greene
• Release Date : 101-01-01
• Genre: Self-Help
• Pages : 73
• ISBN 10 : 978186723xxxx
• Total Read : 90
• File Size : 19,5 Mb

SUMMARY: This book is If you’ve ever wondered about human behavior, wonder no more. In The Laws of Human Nature, Greene takes a look at 18 laws that reveal who we are and why we do the things we do. Humans are complex beings, but Greene uses these laws to strip human nature down to its bare bones. Every law that he presents is supported by a real-life historical account, with an insightful twist to drive the point home. As you read the book, don’t be surprised if you get the feeling that everyone you know, including yourself, is described in the book! DISCLAIMER: This is an UNOFFICIAL summary and not the original book. It is designed to record all the key points of the original book.

Human Nature in Politics

• Author : Graham Wallas
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1909
• Genre: Political ethics
• Pages : 332
• ISBN 10 : PRNC:32101071994741
• Total Read : 93
• File Size : 13,5 Mb

Human Nature

• Author : Geoff Blackwell
• Publisher : Chronicle Books
• Release Date : 2020-11-03
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 160
• ISBN 10 : 9781797209180
• Total Read : 61
• File Size : 13,6 Mb

In Human Nature, 12 of today's most influential nature and conservation photographers address the biggest environmental concerns of our time. • Joel Sartore • Paul Nicklen • Ami Vitale • Brent Stirton • Frans Lanting • Brian Skerry • Tim Laman • Cristina Mittermeier • J Henry Fair • Richard John Seymour • George Steinmetz • Steve Winter Alongside their reflections, they present curated selections from their photographic careers. Stories and extraordinary images from around the world come together in a powerful call to awareness and action. • The United Nations has declared that nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history. • Extinction looms over one million species of plants and animals. • Human Nature wrestles with challenging questions: What do we have? What do we stand to lose? This book offers inspiration to environmentalists, activists, photography fans, and anyone concerned about the future of our world. • This illuminating book tackles our modern environmental future through the lens of preeminent photographers • Great gift for photographers, nature enthusiasts, those who enjoy backpacking and camping, and anyone who cares about Earth's climate and future • Add it to the shelf with books like National Geographic The Photo Ark Vanishing: The World's Most Vulnerable Animals by Joel Sartore, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, and Dire Predictions: The Visual Guide to the Findings of the IPCC by Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump.

A Treatise on Human Nature

• Author : David Hume
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1874
• Genre: Emotions
• Pages : 544
• ISBN 10 : RMS:RMS2LBIF000011080$$$D
• Total Read : 73
• File Size : 17,6 Mb

On Human Nature

• Author : Roger Scruton
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2018-10-16
• Genre: Philosophy
• Pages : 159
• ISBN 10 : 9780691183039
• Total Read : 79
• File Size : 7,7 Mb

A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights. Scruton develops and defends his account of human nature by ranging widely across intellectual history, from Plato and Averroës to Darwin and Wittgenstein. The book begins with Kant’s suggestion that we are distinguished by our ability to say “I”—by our sense of ourselves as the centers of self-conscious reflection. This fact is manifested in our emotions, interests, and relations. It is the foundation of the moral sense, as well as of the aesthetic and religious conceptions through which we shape the human world and endow it with meaning. And it lies outside the scope of modern materialist philosophy, even though it is a natural and not a supernatural fact. Ultimately, Scruton offers a new way of understanding how self-consciousness affects the question of how we should live. The result is a rich view of human nature that challenges some of today’s most fashionable ideas about our species.