1st Edition

A Sociobiology Compendium Aphorisms, Sayings, Asides

By Del Thiessen Copyright 1998
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

151 Pages
by Routledge

The novelist Joseph Conrad expressed a great truth when he said: "The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future," Our evolutionary history of noble acts and foul deeds, leading to survival and reproduction, guarantees that we understand the most essential facets of our physical and social environment. The nature of our struggles--our lusts,... Read more
Preface: Our Genetic Beginnings Introduction: Culture is in Our Evolution; The Nature of Man; Romantic Love, Passion, and the Price of Reproduction; The Dark Side of Human Nature; The Duality of the Human Brain; The Historical Depth of Culture; Creativity and the Pain of Self-Discovery; Masters of Death, Trying to Go Beyond the Genes, Epilogue: The Depth of Our Knowledge, Bibliography: References to Our Past

Biography

Thiessen, Del