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In Search of Human Nature by Mary E. Clark (Hardcover, 2002)

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What are the roots of human nature and what is wrong with the scientific picture of what and who we are? Was Thomas Hobbes right to say that human life is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'? In this magisterial new work, biologist Mary Clark argues that the Western view of human nature is built around a highly atomistic and ideological framework that encourages us to think about the world and ourselves in the wrong way. Beginning with some of the problems that emerge from building laws of human nature upon laws of physics, Mary Clark tackles an astonishing array of problems: *what role genes play in the development of the brain *how we generated the concepts of mind and meaning we accept today and what is wrong with them *to the way we think about the formation of individual and group identity, conflict resolution and the environment. Throughout the book, she critically scrutinises many widely-held views, whether it is what Darwin actually said about adaptive fitness and survival, received models of human nature such as man the 'warrior' or 'hunter', or whether it is right to think of emotions as an unfortunate legacy of our evolutionary heritage. Arguing for a more expansive view of science and human nature, she makes a strong case for the role of culture in constructing what and who we are without falling into the trap of relativism.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Taylor & Francis LTD
ISBN-13
9780415286596
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88283984

Product Key Features

Book Title
In Search of Human Nature
Author
Mary E. Clark
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Medicine, Popular Philosophy, Science
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
576 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
1066g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Mary E. Clark
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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