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Evolutionary psychology, the science of human nature, Allen D. MacNeill, II

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Evolutionary psychology, the science of human nature, Allen D. MacNeill, II
Language
eng
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Course guide Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120)
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Literary text for sound recordings
lectures speeches
Main title
Evolutionary psychology
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Oclc number
733285270
Responsibility statement
Allen D. MacNeill
Series statement
The modern scholar
Sub title
the science of human nature
Summary
A continuation of MacNeill's lectures, in which he examines the surprising-- and sometimes unsettling-- answers to the most basic of human questions: "Why do we do what we do?"
Table Of Contents
Dominance and territoriality -- Primate politics -- Adaptive conflict -- The natural history of rape -- Guns, germs, and steel -- The neurobiology of religion -- Religion as side effect -- Religion as social glue -- Religion and war : a coevolutionary arms race -- Adaptive pathologies -- My brain made me do it -- Evolutionary aesthetics -- Free will, intelligent design, and other boojums -- Chance, necessity, and freedom
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Science of human nature
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