Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods

Survival of the Friendliest (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring and a riveting read.' Cass Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge What is the secret to humanity's evolutionary success? Could it be our strength, our intellect… or something much nicer? From the authors of New York Times bestseller The Genius of Dogs comes a powerful new idea about how 'friendliness' is the key factor in the flourishing of our species. Hare and Woods present an elegant new theory called self-domestication, looking at examples of co-operation and empathy and what this can tell us about the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens…

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786078841
• Artikelnr.: 60700848

Autorenporträt

Brian Hare is Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University, where he founded the Duke Canine Cognition Center. His research on 'dognition' has been published in the leading journals. With his wife Vanessa Woods, he cofounded the new dog intelligence testing and training company Canines Inc. To find out more, visit the Dognition website.

Rezensionen

'Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring - and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time.'

Cass Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge