THE MORAL ANIMAL
Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life
Robert Wright
Vintage Books, Random House, 1994
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: After reading this book, the reader should understand the basic concepts and findings of evolutionary psychology.
Since the mid-1970s, a small but growing group of scholars has taken what E.O. Wilson called 'the new synthesis' and carried it into the social sciences with the aim of overhauling them, applying the new, improved Darwinian theory to the human species, and then tested their applications with freshly gathered data. The questions addressed by the new view range from the mundane to the spiritual.
Robert Wright is a senior editor at THE NEW REPUBLIC and coauthor of its 'TRB' column. He has written for THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, THE NEW YORKER, and TIME. At THE SCIENCES magazine, his writings won the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism. His first book, THREE SCIENTISTS AND THEIR GODS: LOOKING FOR MEANING IN AN AGE OF INFORMATION, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
13 CE credits; 466 pages (378 text)
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