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9780142000076

Mean Genes : From Sex to Money to Food - Taming Our Primal Instincts

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  • ISBN13:

    9780142000076

  • ISBN10:

    0142000078

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-08-01
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Summary

Why do we want-and do-so many things that are bad for us? In Mean Genes Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan argue that we need to stop looking to Sigmund Freud for answers and start looking to Charles Darwin. Mean Genes reveals that our struggles for self-improvement are, in fact, battles against our own genes-genes that helped our distant ancestors flourish, but are selfish and out of place in the modern world. Using this evolutionary lens, Mean Genes brilliantly examines the issues that most affect our lives-body image, money, addiction, violence, and relationships, friendship, love, and fidelity-and offers steps to help us lead more satisfying lives.

Author Biography

Terry Burnham, Ph.D., is a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School Jay Phelan, Ph.D., is a biology professor at UCLA

Table of Contents

Introduction Our toughest battles are with ourselves 1(14)
THIN WALLETS AND FAT BODIES
Debt Laughing all the way to the Darwinian bank
15(20)
bankruptcy
savings
big business
Fat Please don't feed the humans
35(24)
dieting
laziness
liposuction
CONSTANT CRAVINGS
Drugs Hijacking the pleasure pathway
59(24)
caffeine
alcohol
prozac
addiction
hope
Risk Thrill-seeking genes taking us for a ride
83(22)
casinos
jalapeno peppers
roller-coasters
rewards
Greed Running fast on the happiness treadmill
105(26)
money
happiness
materialism
progress
joy
ROMANCE AND REPRODUCTION
Gender Girls against the boys
131(22)
mars & venus
hormones
homosexuality
culture
Beauty It's more than skin deep
153(20)
attraction
desire
fads
Infidelity Our cheating hearts
173(26)
marriage
cheaters
love
lust
promise
FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND FOES
Family The ties that bind
199(14)
blood
siblings
conflict
motherhood
Friends and Foes Keep friends close and enemies closer
213(30)
warfare
race
gossip
road rage
loyalty
Conclusion Surviving desire 243(12)
Acknowledgments 255(2)
Index 257

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