The Stone Age Present. How Evolution Has Shaped Modern Life From Sex, Violence, and Language to Emotions, Morals, and Communities
Psychology
084080
New York etc.
1994
16×24
tvrdi s omotom
287
engleski
Price: 18,00 EUR
Modern human psychology and behavior has roots in the lives of our Stone Age ancestors, asserts Allman in this lucid and provocative survey of the emerging field of ``evolutionary psychology.'' In his view, our species' primary adaptation was not hunting, toolmaking or language but the ability to cooperate; the dangers and payoffs of dealing with the most treacherous, dangerous animal in the world-- each other --triggered the brain's evolutionary growth. A senior science writer for U.S. News & World Report , Allman draws plausible connections between ancient humans' social cooperation and contemporary behavior such as anger at a mate's infidelity, how men and women choose a partner, our appreciation of music and art, food preferences and much more. He also identifies a downside to our putatitve Stone Age legacy -modern group insularity, racism, rabid nationalism and our difficulty in adjusting to a unifying technological society.
