Gaining Control: How Human Behavior Evolved

by Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis

'Gaining control' tells the story of how human behavioral capacities evolved from those of other animal species. Exploring what is known about the psychological capacities of other groups of animals, the authors reconstruct a fascinating history of our own mental evolution.

In the book, the authors see mental evolution as a series of steps in which new mechanisms for controlling behavior develop in different species - starting with early representatives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199688958
• ISBN13: 9780199688951
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"