Human beings are important, especially to themselves! But as science advances, it has become increasingly clear that we are less special and more natural than many people have long believed. This book shows how science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size," and how humanity has responded. As we finally look at ourselves honestly and accurately, we can identify ourselves as wonderfully natural, inseparable from the universe and other livingthings.
Human beings are important, especially to themselves! But as science advances, it has become increasingly clear that we are less special and more natural than many people have long believed. This book shows how science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size," and how humanity has responded. As we finally look at ourselves honestly and accurately, we can identify ourselves as wonderfully natural, inseparable from the universe and other livingthings.
David P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington. He has written more than 280 peer-reviewed articles and nearly 40 books. Barash has penned numerous op-eds in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as numerous pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nautilus, and aeon.
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1: The allure of human centrality, or, how we persistently try to deny our place in the natural world 1. The Journey to Brobdignag 2. From Centrality to Periphery 3. The Meaning of Life 4. Well Designed? 5. The Anthropic Principle 6. Tardigrades, Trisolarans and the Toughness of Life 7. Of Humanzees and Chimphumans 8. Separateness of Self Part 2: New Ways of Understanding Human Nature 9. Uniquely Thoughtful 10. Conflict between Parents and Offspring 11. True or False? 12. The Myth of Monogamy 13. War and Peace 14. About Those Better Angels ... 15. Who's in Charge? 16. The Paradox of Power Conclusion: Optare aude
Part 1: The allure of human centrality, or, how we persistently try to deny our place in the natural world 1. The Journey to Brobdignag 2. From Centrality to Periphery 3. The Meaning of Life 4. Well Designed? 5. The Anthropic Principle 6. Tardigrades, Trisolarans and the Toughness of Life 7. Of Humanzees and Chimphumans 8. Separateness of Self Part 2: New Ways of Understanding Human Nature 9. Uniquely Thoughtful 10. Conflict between Parents and Offspring 11. True or False? 12. The Myth of Monogamy 13. War and Peace 14. About Those Better Angels ... 15. Who's in Charge? 16. The Paradox of Power Conclusion: Optare aude
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