Libro Paradoxical Primate (Societas) De Colin Talbot

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Societas

Autor

Colin Talbot

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

9780907845850

ISBN13

9780907845850

Categorías

Evolución

Paradoxical Primate (Societas)

Colin Talbot (Autor) · Societas · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Paradoxical Primate (Societas)"

Human beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a new framework for understanding human nature, from an evolutionary perspective but drawing on existing social sciences. It seeks to explain how human beings can appear to be so malleable in their nature, yet have an inherited set of behavioural instincts. When the founder of sociobiology, E.O. Wilson, made a plea for greater integration of the physical and human sciences in his book Consilience, there was an underlying assumption that the traffic would be mainly one way -- from physical to human science. This book reverses this assumption and draws on a new branch of human sciences, paradoxical systems theory, to reconceptualise some of the most innovative developments from physical sciences -- the related fields of evolutionary psychology, ethology, and behavioural genetics. The new approach is also applied to politics, economic and public policy approaches.