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See "Support Material" below for new online resources, including PowerPoint slides and Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank. A controversial, idea-driven book that challenges everything you (think you) know about sex, monogamy, marriage, and family. If you think that morality no longer proffers genetic advantages, does that indicate we will evolve to become less moral? That’s something you might think is obvious—if you’ve read the Grimm Fairy Tales, there’s always an evil stepmother.
The book also contains a 4-page glossary; 19 pages of notes; and, a 28-page bibliography in addition to an index. Author, Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined "Glenn Geher has created a text that is both comprehensive in coverage and scope and very accessible. This is a bit like what we were saying about whether the true motives for murder are explicitly understood by the murderer.It came out in 1994—I’d just become a teenager then, and was getting into all sorts of popular science, from Richard Dawkins to Stephen Hawking. Evolutionary Psychology: The Basics is a jargon-free and accessible introduction to evolutionary psychology, which examines behaviour, thoughts, and emotions in relation to evolutionary theory.
In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world’s philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, or What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger-can enrich and even transform our lives. Bill Gates Yong succeeds in his intention to give us a 'grander view of life' and does so without falling prey to grand, unifying explanations that are far too simplistic. Human traits are a product of natural selection—and the story of how we have evolved explains many of our psychological quirks today.It's a timely book about how and why violence has steadily decreased throughout our history, and how we can continue this trend. Ryan Holiday This is probably the definitive beginner text on evolutionary psychology and one of the easiest to get into. Psychology is often a lot of very separate pieces of experimental work about how a mind does this or that.
Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Scientists have traditionally explained these qualities as merely a side effect of surplus brain size, but Miller argues that they were sexual attractors, not side effects. To help, here's our list of books by winners of the Nobel literature prize that have been recommended on Five Books. I think evolutionary psychology is necessarily the theory that’s got to underpin all that, because for the bits of our mind with lots of specialized mechanisms to have evolved, they must have given our ancestors some benefit.And when we started being able to speak—there are changes in the bones of the throat, which they can time quite well. If you give a chimp a rock to throw, he’s going to miss the target most of the time, he’s terrible at it. That’s one way of explaining the evidence that Wegner pulled together, that we have this illusion of conscious will and we infer the causes of our action, not because we actually need to do this to work out why we did what we did— our brain probably doesn’t need that information and it could collect it from its own modules—but because in the way I’m building a model of your mind, reading your mind, it’s helpful for me to have some sense of what you’re thinking about me. And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system?
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