en
Agustín Fuentes

Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You

Meld me wanneer het boek is toegevoegd
Dit boek lezen upload een EPUB- of FB2-bestand naar Bookmate. Hoe kan ik een boek uploaden?
There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative Agustín Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, Fuentes incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution requiring us to dispose of notions of “nature or nurture.” Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy and differences between the sexes. A final chapter plus an appendix provide a set of take-home points on how readers can myth-bust on their own. Accessible, compelling, and original, this book is a rich and nuanced account of how nature, culture, experience, and choice interact to influence human behavior.
Dit boek is momenteel niet beschikbaar
438 afgedrukte pagina’s
Oorspronkelijke uitgave
2012
Jaar van uitgave
2012
Hebt u het al gelezen? Wat vindt u ervan?
👍👎

Citaten

  • Soliloquios Literariosciteerde uit6 jaar geleden
    There are not white, black and Asian diseases. However, being white, black or Asian can put you in different social and environmental realities that lead to inequalities in health and disease.
  • Soliloquios Literariosciteerde uit6 jaar geleden
    We will never understand violence by looking only at the genes or brains of violent people. Violence is a social and political problem, not just a biological and psychological one
  • Soliloquios Literariosciteerde uit6 jaar geleden
    This prevalence of cooperation does not negate aggression or violence and in fact probably enables the kind of intense and extreme violence that is characteristic of modern warfare and civil conflicts. To create and maintain armies you need extremely complex cooperation and to engage in wide-scale warfare, coordination and a near complete suppression of selfish behavior is needed. One might even argue that war is possible directly due to humans' unique abilities to maintain large-scale and intensive cooperation.

Op de boekenplanken

fb2epub
Sleep je bestanden hiernaartoe (maximaal 5 per keer)