Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are

by David Philip Barash

Book Overview

Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This viewpoint--a persistent paradigm of our own unique self-importance--is as dangerous as it is false.

In Through a Glass Brightly, noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size," and how humanity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190673710
• ISBN13: 9780190673710
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"