Homo Novus <U+0013> A Human Without Illusions

Converging evidence from disciplines including sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us to adopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such as free will, nav̐e realism, humans as creation's crowning glory fall and our moral roots in ape group...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Frey, Ulrich J. (Editor), Str̲mer, Charlotte. (Editor), Willf<U+00fc>hr, Kai P. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Series:The Frontiers Collection,
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505 0 # |a 1 Introduction -- PART I Humans Are Exceptional -- 2 The Position of Man in the Cosmos -- 3 Living Differences -- 4 Nothing to Talk About -- PART II We Are Independent of Our Sociobiological Roots -- 5 The True Egoist Is Cooperative -- 6 The Social Brain and Its Implications -- 7 Why Most Theories Get ItWrong -- PART III The Biological Imperative Doesn<U+0019>t Matter to Us -- 8 Mortality Crises and Their Consequences for Human Life Histories -- 9 Costs and Consequences of Reproduction -- 10 Height and Reproductive Success -- PART IV The Past Doesn<U+0019>t Echo in Our Heads -- 11 Developmental Psychology Without Dualistic Illusions -- 12 The Psychology of Families -- 13 Moral Normativity Is (Naturally) Grown -- 14 The Origins of Symbolic Culture -- 15 Belief in Melanesia -- PART V We Are Free inWhat WeWant -- 16 Free Will -- 17 Could I Have Done Otherwise?- PART VI Epilogue -- 18 Modern Illusions of Humankind. 
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