Natural Selections

by Barash, David P.

• ISBN13: 9781934137055
• ISBN10: 1934137057
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Bellevue Literary Pr

Summary

What happens when evolutionary and cultural imperatives clash, and what we can do about it.

Table of Contents

Seductions of Centrality	p. 9
Evolutionary Design Flaws, or, Why Bad Things Have Happened to Perfectly Good Creatures (Including Ourselves)	p. 16
Mainstream Misconceptions	p. 21
Neither Leaps Nor Bounds	p. 32
Who's in Charge Here?	p. 42
Material of Mind: A Surprising Homage to B. F. Skinner	p. 49
Y B Conscious?	p. 57
Intelligence	p. 64
Let Us Reason Together	p. 71
Believing Is Seeing	p. 80
Evolutionary Existentialism and the Meaning of Life	p. 86
The Tyranny of the Natural	p. 98
Forbidden Knowledge?	p. 104
Are We Selfish Altruists? Group-Oriented Individualists? (Or What?)	p. 111
Dealing with Dilemmas: Personal Gain versus Public Good	p. 118
The Ugly Underside of Altruism	p. 126
Why Is Violence Such a "Guy Thing"?	p. 136
One and a Half Cheers...	p. 148
Honest Liars?	p. 155
What Puts the Dys in Dystopia?	p. 162
Evolution's Odd Couple	p. 173
Index	p. 185
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