Evolution of the Psyche

D H Rosen

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Rosen and Luebbert have edited a collection providing a diverse sampling of theoretical and scientific approaches to understanding important markers c... Lees meer

Evolution as Natural History

Wim Van Der Steen

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Wim van der Steen charts conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology and, on the basis of this, he evaluates applications of evolutionary theory ou... Lees meer

Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy

Steven Peterson, Albert Somit

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Somit and Peterson seek to explain two apparently contradictory yet well-established political phenomena: First, throughout human history, the vast ma... Lees meer

Darwinism Applied

John H Beckstrom

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Beckstrom explores how discoveries in evolutionary science can help people achieve, but not establish, social goals. Beginning with the principle that... Lees meer

The Biological Origins of Art

Nancy E Aiken

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Beginning with Plato, philosophers have theorized about art, asking What is art? and How does art evoke emotion? Their answers, evolving from Plato's ... Lees meer

The Evolution of Love

Ada Lampert

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Lampert presents the story of love: when, why, and how love became a central experience of humans. Assuming that our world is built of matter, she sta... Lees meer

The Evolutionary Neuroethology of Paul MacLean

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• In the mid-20th century, integrative efforts began concerning the brain and its social and humanistic functions. These efforts were led by Paul D. Mac... Lees meer

Genes, Brains, and Politics

Elliott White

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• White moves from a simple proposition maintaining that all individuals seek suitable surroundings to propose a provocative approach to social and poli... Lees meer

The Culture of Sexism

Ignacio L Gotz

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Most contemporary analyses of sexism focus on economic, social, and political inequalities and suggest appropriate remedies. In contrast, Götz argues ... Lees meer

The g Factor

Arthur Jensen

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Jensen provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the major constructs of behavioral science--general mental ability--labeled the g factor by its di... Lees meer

Mind and Variability

Patrick McNamara

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Mental Darwinism, a new approach to the study of mental phenomena, applies selectionist ideas to problems of mind and behavior. McNamara challenges th... Lees meer

Choosing the Right Stuff

Patricia Santy

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• For the first time the history of the psychological and psychiatric evaluation of astronaut and cosmonaut candidates is detailed. The general public a... Lees meer

Sex Linkage of Intelligence

Robert Lehrke

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• The author presents a theory that major genes controlling the growth of human intelligence, both left- and right-brain attributes, are on the X-chromo... Lees meer

The Fratricidal Global Village

Elliott White

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• As Elliott White shows, we live increasingly within a global village, but one that remains stubbornly fragmentized. It is split along ethnic, racial, ... Lees meer

Eugenics

Richard Lynn

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Lynn argues that the condemnation of eugenics in the second half of the 20th century went too far and offers a reassessment. The eugenic objectives of... Lees meer

How Humans Relate

John Birtchnell

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• From the time we are born we never stop relating, just as our hearts never stop beating. Relating is a characteristic which humans share with all anim... Lees meer

The Darwinian Heritage and Sociobiology

David Smillie, Johan M. van der Dennen, Daniel R. Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• The editors present a collection of essays dealing with both the life and ideas of Charles Darwin as they relate to human sociobiology. They represent... Lees meer

Hormones, Sex, and Society

Helmuth Nyborg

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• Nyborg sets out to prove that classic ideas of the mind, learning, and memory must be re-examined through the lens of modern biology. Neuroscience and... Lees meer

Relating in Psychotherapy

John Birtchnell

• Hardcover | Engels | Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
• In his earlier book, How Humans Relate , John Birtchnell proposed that relating occurs along two axes, a horizontal one concerning becoming close vers... Lees meer