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9781608190911

Bozo Sapiens Why to Err is Human

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  • ISBN13:

    9781608190911

  • ISBN10:

    1608190919

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-08-17
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

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Summary

Our species, it appears, is hardwired to get things wrong in a staggering variety of ways. Why did recipients of a loan offer accept a higher interest rate when a pretty woman's face was printed on the flyer? Why did one poll on immigration find that the most despised foreigners were from a group that did not exist? Why does giving someone power make them more likely to chew with their mouth open and pick their nose? And why is your sister going out with that biker dude? In fact, our cognitive, logical, and romantic failures may be a fair price to pay for our extraordinary success as a species?they are the necessary cost of our adaptability.Bozo Sapiensswoops effortlessly across neurochemistry, behavioral economics, and evolutionary biology (among other disciplines) to answer with clarity and wit the questions above?and larger ones about what it means to be human.

Author Biography

Michael and Ellen Kaplan are son and mother, and coauthors of the bestselling Chances Are …: Adventures in Probability. Michael is an award-winning writer and filmmaker who lives near Edinburgh, Scotland. Ellen is a historian and cofounder of the Math Circle, a program for the exploration and enjoyment of mathematics. She is coauthor, with her husband, Robert, of The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics and Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free. She lives in central Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. v
From the Logbook of the Ship of Foolsp. 1
Idols of the Marketplacep. 19
Tinted Glassesp. 67
Off the Railsp. 111
One of Usp. 151
Fresh off the Pleistocene Busp. 183
Living Rightp. 221
Notesp. 253
Indexp. 280
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