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 help us understand human behavior. Nevertheless, the legitimacy of this exercise is at the center of a heated controversy that has raged for over a century. Many evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and psychologists have taken these evolutionary principles and tried using them to explain a wide range of human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198508840
• ISBN13: 9780198508847
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.6" x 5.5"