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This Explains Everything - Deep, Beautiful and Elegant Theories of How the World Works written by John Brockman and Various Visonary Thinkers performed by Peter Berkrot, Michelle Ford, Antony Ferguson and Ann Marie Lee on Audio CD (Unabridged)

This Explains Everything - Deep, Beautiful and Elegant Theories of How the World Works written by John Brockman and Various Visonary Thinkers performed by Peter Berkrot, Michelle Ford, Antony Ferguson and Ann Marie Lee on Audio CD (Unabridged)£39.99

In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to...

Minds Make Societies - How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create written by Pascal Boyer performed by Tom Parks on CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781978637184
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Psychology
Duration:  784 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Pascal Boyer
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A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies "There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as...

the rest of nature."

Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles. In fascinating, thought-provoking passages, he explores questions such as: Why is there conflict between groups?

Why do people believe low-value information such as rumors?

Why are there religions?

What is social justice?

What explains morality?

Boyer provides a new picture of cultural transmission that draws on the pragmatics of human communication, the constructive nature of memory in human brains, and human motivation for group formation and cooperation.

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