Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation

by Anthony O'Hear

Book Overview

In this controversial book O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behavior in terms of evolution. He contends that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to the human world. Because of our reflectiveness and our rationality we take on goals and ideals which cannot be justified in terms of survival-promotion or reproductive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198250045
• ISBN13: 9780198250043
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"