
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovati...
Hardcover: 376 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (May 8, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780300223453
ISBN-13: 978-0300223453
ASIN: 0300223455
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 101697
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This book is a good, up-to-date review of recent findings and arguments in cognitive psychology as applied to the study of human evolution and the comparative study of societies. Boyer is an anthropologist, and thus draws on the full range of human ...
egrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles. In fascinating, thought-provoking passages, he explores questions such as, Why is there conflict between groups? Why do people believe low-value information such as rumors? Why are there religions? What is social justice? What explains morality? Boyer provides a new picture of cultural transmission that draws on the pragmatics of human communication, the constructive nature of memory in human brains, and human motivation for group formation and cooperation.