Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind

by Jesse J. Prinz

Book Overview

In this era of genome projects and brain scans, it is all too easy to overestimate the role of biology in human psychology. But in this passionate corrective to the idea that DNA is destiny, Jesse Prinz focuses on the most extraordinary aspect of human nature: that nurture can supplement and supplant nature, allowing our minds to be profoundly influenced by experience and culture. Drawing on cutting-edge research in neuroscience, psychology, and anthropology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393061752
• ISBN13: 9780393061758
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"