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Natural selections : selfish altruists, honest liars, and other realities of evolution / David P. Barash.

Title: Natural selections : selfish altruists, honest liars, and other realities of evolution / David P. Barash.
Author: Barash, David P.
Publication: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, c2008.

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Includes index.

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Contents

Seductions of centrality -- Evolutionary design flaws, or, Why bad things have happened to perfectly good creatures (including ourselves) -- Mainstream misconceptions -- Neither leaps nor bounds -- Who's in charge here? -- Material of mind : a surprising homage to B.F. Skinner -- Y B conscious? -- Intelligence -- Let us reason together -- Believing is seeing -- Evolutionary existentialism and the meaning of life -- The tyranny of the natural -- Forbidden knowledge? -- Are we selfish altruists? Group-oriented individualists? (Or what?) -- Dealing with dilemmas : personal gain versus public good -- The ugly underside of altruism -- Why is violence such a "guy thing"? -- One and a half cheers ... -- Honest liars? -- What puts the dys in dystopia? -- Evolutions's odd couple.

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9781934137055 (hardcover)

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^^2007035177

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Harvard Library