Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour

by Kevin N. Laland, Gillian Brown, Gillian R. Brown

Book Overview

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this exercise is at the centre of a heated controversy that has raged for over a century. Many evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and psychologists are optimistic that evolutionary principles can be applied to human behaviour, and have offered evolutionary explanations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199586969
• ISBN13: 9780199586967
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.1"