Evolution in the Here and Now: How Adaptation and Social Learning Explain Humanity

by Nigel Barber

This book argues that the two most influential theories on modern human behavior, cultural determinism and evolutionary psychology, are quite inadequate. Cultural deterministic theories deny personal experience and too often fall prey to anthropocentric bias. Most evolutionary psychologists argue that humans are shaped to fit our ancestral past, effectively freezing us in time. Evolution in the Here and Now looks to new factors like...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633886182
• ISBN13: 9781633886186
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"