Homo Novus <U+0013> A Human Without Illusions

• 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,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Genetic epistemology.; Evolution (Biology).; Psychology.; Anthropology.; Consciousness.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Epistemology.; Popular Science in Psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Sociology, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12142-5

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.