To understand why we humans are as we are, it is necessary to look at the essential
building blocks that comprise our nature. The foundations of this structure are our …

" Science and philosophy have discovered quite a lot about humans. The emergence and
development of biology, psychology, anthropology, and cognate fields has substantially …

Recent empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens,
the origins of the mind/brain, and the development of human culture has sparked heated …

Customary recap to get our juices flowing. Chapter 2 presented the first systematic attempts
to develop a true science of human nature: sociobiology and its intellectual descendant …

While there may be no one single characteristic that differentiates humans as a species, it is
the combination of differences from other species that makes us unique. The new edition of …

Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical
questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human …

Biological science has made unchallengeable contributions to understanding human
origins. However, it does not follow that biological science can explain everything human …

Human nature is a contested concept and notions of it vary across disciplines. Despite this
diversity, three basic notions of human nature emerge. One identifies human nature with …

The last decade has seen an explosive burst of new information about human origins and
our evolutionary status with respect to other species. We have long been considered unique …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …