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- catalog abstract "Bittersweet Destiny combines a discourse on the evolution of human behavior with a philosophical perspective. It explores evolutionary theory aimed at determining human behavior. Thiessen presents material against the broad background of everyday life, allowing the reader to see the theory of evolution as it has shaped his or her own behavior. However, he points out that when evolution theory is aimed at human behavior, the critics object, and controversy results. Bittersweet Destiny describes the heroic efforts of naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace to unlock the secrets of evolution. It continues with a vivid description of our fossil history and our chance beginning. From there the story implicates disease processes in evolution, highlights our irrational and rational nature, focuses on those characteristics of brain evolution and language that make us distinctive, and illustrates our most basic survival and reproductive mechanisms. Thiessen warns the reader that things are as they are no matter what we might wish; we ignore facts and controversy at our own risk. To this end Bittersweet Destiny draws out the evolutionary argument to its logical end - no holds barred. It will be of significant interest to anthropologists, psychologists, biologists, and sociologists.".
- catalog contributor b8617224.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Arrow of destiny -- Shattered mirror -- Uncertain survival -- Bones and stones of history -- Bone talk -- Invisible imperative -- Undaunted reality submerged in beauty -- Rules of the mind -- Taming of the irrational mind -- Strange evolution of the human brain -- Motor basis of mind -- Light and dark sides of consciousness -- Years without solitude -- Mining the depths of the cultural gene -- Yin and yang of sex -- Dark lens of evolution -- Last millennium.".
- catalog description "Bittersweet Destiny combines a discourse on the evolution of human behavior with a philosophical perspective. It explores evolutionary theory aimed at determining human behavior. Thiessen presents material against the broad background of everyday life, allowing the reader to see the theory of evolution as it has shaped his or her own behavior. However, he points out that when evolution theory is aimed at human behavior, the critics object, and controversy results. Bittersweet Destiny describes the heroic efforts of naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace to unlock the secrets of evolution. It continues with a vivid description of our fossil history and our chance beginning. From there the story implicates disease processes in evolution, highlights our irrational and rational nature, focuses on those characteristics of brain evolution and language that make us distinctive, and illustrates our most basic survival and reproductive mechanisms. Thiessen warns the reader that things are as they are no matter what we might wish; we ignore facts and controversy at our own risk. To this end Bittersweet Destiny draws out the evolutionary argument to its logical end - no holds barred. It will be of significant interest to anthropologists, psychologists, biologists, and sociologists.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 420 p. :".
- catalog identifier "156000245X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers,".
- catalog subject "155.7 20".
- catalog subject "1996 I-298".
- catalog subject "BF 701 T439b 1996".
- catalog subject "BF701 .T44 1995".
- catalog subject "Behavior evolution.".
- catalog subject "Behavior.".
- catalog subject "Biological Evolution.".
- catalog subject "Evolutionary psychology.".
- catalog subject "Genetic psychology.".
- catalog subject "Genetics.".
- catalog subject "Human behavior.".
- catalog subject "Psychology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Arrow of destiny -- Shattered mirror -- Uncertain survival -- Bones and stones of history -- Bone talk -- Invisible imperative -- Undaunted reality submerged in beauty -- Rules of the mind -- Taming of the irrational mind -- Strange evolution of the human brain -- Motor basis of mind -- Light and dark sides of consciousness -- Years without solitude -- Mining the depths of the cultural gene -- Yin and yang of sex -- Dark lens of evolution -- Last millennium.".
- catalog title "Bittersweet destiny : the stormy evolution of human behavior / Del Thiessen.".
- catalog type "text".