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Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781934137055)
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x"Barash . . . brilliantly integrat es] science, literature, and pop culture into elegant and insightful commentaries on the most interesting and important questions of our time. A delightful read."--Michael Shermer, author of The Science of Good and Evil
"Entertaining and thought-provoking."--Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate
If we are, in part, a product of our genes, can free will exist? Incisive and engaging, this indispensable tour of evolutionary biology runs the gamut of contemporary debates, from science and religion to our place in the universe.
David Barash is the author of The Myth of Monogamy and Madame Bovary's Ovaries. He lives in Redmond, Washington.
Author: David P. Barash
ISBN-10: 1934137057
ISBN-13: 9781934137055
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.32w x 0.71d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2007 pg. 759
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1182
By David P. Barash
xDavid Barash, professor of psychology at the University of Washington, is the author of over 20 books (among them Natural Selections, The Myth of Monogamy and Madame Bovary's Ovaries) and over 200 articles. One of the earliest proponents of "sociobiology" in the 1970s, now know as "evolutionary psychology" or "evolutionary biology," he remains among its most articulate popularizers.
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