Tattersall, Ian
Summary: What happens now that human population has outpaced biological natural selection? Two leading scientists reveal how we became who we are--and what we might become. "When you think of evolution, the picture that most likely comes to mind is a straight-forward progression, the iconic illustration of a primate morphing into a proud, upright human being. But in reality, random events have played...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.7 TATGreenspan, Stanley I.
Contents: Origin of symbols -- Intellectual growth and transformations of emotions during the course of life -- The early stages of emotional regulation, engagement, and signaling : nonhuman primates and the earliest hominids -- Problem-solving collaborations : chimpanzees and early humans -- Symbols, words, and ideas : Archaic H. sapiens and early moderns -- Representation and the beginning of logic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.7 GREVince, Gaia
Summary: What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 VINFoster, Charles
Summary: "A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.7 FOSProvine, Robert R.
Summary: "Robert Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread--in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified human behaviors. Upon investigation, these instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be uniquely valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species." -- Back jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.3 PROWilson, David Sloan
Summary: David Sloan Wilson, one of the world’s leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth’s creatures? The key to understanding the existence of altruism, Wilson argues, is by understanding the role it plays in the social organization of groups. Groups that function...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 WILHare, Brian
Summary: "For most of the approximately 200,000 years that our species has existed, we shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. They were smart, they were strong, and they were inventive. Neanderthals even had the capacity for spoken language. But, one by one, our hominid relatives went extinct. Why did we thrive? In delightfully conversational prose and based on years of his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.7 HARBellah, Robert Neelly
Summary: Examines the history of religion from early ancestors by using biology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology, and follows the expansion of religion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.89 BELBerns, Gregory.
Summary: Draws on such fields as neuoscience, economics, and evolutionary psychology to address the question of how to find a more satisfying way to live, arguing that the key to satisfaction lies in the complexity and challenge in one's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 BERMcNally, Richard J.
Summary: Discusses the classification process for mental illness, examing the difficulty that practioners have of separating normal reactions to everyday stresses from true mental disorders, which involve recurring patterns of symptoms and behaviors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 MCNHarris, Judith Rich.
Summary: Draws on principles in evolutionary psychology to explore a controversial theory about the source of human personality, challenging current scientific beliefs while examining what can be learned through studies of language, autism, and chimpanzees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 HARWright, Robert
Summary: An accessible introduction to the science of evolutionary psychology and how it explains many aspects of human nature. Unlike many books on the topic, which focus on abstractions like kin selection, this book focuses on Darwinian explanations of why we are the way we are--emotionally and morally--and interweaves episodes from Darwin's own life as illuminating examples. Wright deals particularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.5 WRIShatkin, Jess P.
Summary: Texting while driving. Binge-drinking. Bullying. Unprotected sex. There are plenty of reasons for parents to worry about getting a late-night call about their teen. But most of the advice parents and educators hear about teens is outdated and unscientific--and simply doesn't work. Acclaimed adolescent psychiatrist and educator Jess Shatkin brings more than two decades' worth of research and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 SHASummary: Dissecting the phenomenon of altruism-as well as its mirror image, the instinct of self-preservation-is perhaps best accomplished with real-world case studies. This program does so as it documents the aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami. Following four independent relief workers in the hardest-hit areas of Sri Lanka, the film captures scene after scene in which the most idealistic and pragmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010