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Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour (Hardcover)
by Kevin N. Laland (Author), Gillian Brown (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Sarah Hrdy, author of Mother Nature and The Woman that Never Evolved
Lucid and balanced, Sense and Nonsense will hopefully reach a broad audience.

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A 'must read' for my undergraduate courses for the foreseeable future, Laland and Brown have written an up to date, blessedly balanced and refreshingly critical review of the application of evolutionary theory to the human sciences, based upon the single, and surely correct, view that human behaviour is multiply determined. Henry Plotkin

"How much of human behaviour can be explained by our evolutionary past? All of it? None of it? Kevin Laland and Gillian Brown are superb pilots for these treacherous waters. They have provided us with a lucid, sane and very intelligent alternative to the embattled rhetoric of recent debates. It is an altogether excellent book."Patrick Bateson

"When groundbreaking research and beguiling pseudoscience are presented at the same time in more or less the same form, how on earth do we tell the difference? In this timely, indeed desperately needed, "guide to the perplexed", Laland and Brown provide brief histories and critical overviews of the main evolutionary approaches currently being used to explain human behaviour, including human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, behavioural ecology, meme studies, and gene-culture coevolution. Lucid and balanced, Sense and Nonsense will hopefully reach a broad audience. May it become assigned reading for journalists reporting on this area." Sarah Hrdy, author of Mother Nature: A history of mothers infants and natural selection and The Woman that Never Evolved

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198508840
• ISBN-13: 978-0198508847
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches