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  • Art and Intimacy

    How the Arts Began

    Series series McLellan Endowed Series
    To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy, what we commonly call love.It all begins with the human trait of birthing immature and helpless ... Leer más

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  • What Is Art For?

    Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called �art,� and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species� four-million-year evolutionary history ... Leer más

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  • L'infanzia dell'estetica

    L’origine evolutiva delle pratiche artistiche

    Perché “facciamo” arte? Qual è il motivo per cui le arti e i comportamenti artistici risultano così universalmente diffusi in tutte le popolazioni umane? Qual è, in termini darwiniani, il “vantaggio” che le arti assicurano (o hanno assicurato), nella storia evolutiva della nostra specie? Muovendosi con rara abilità al confine tra numerosi ambiti disciplinari, dalla psicologia dello sviluppo all ... Leer más

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  • Early Rock Art of the American West

    The Geometric Enigma

    A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEThe earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known about ... Leer más

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  • Emerging Ritual in Secular Societies

    A Transdisciplinary Conversation

    The growing absence of meaningful ritual in contemporary Western societies has led to cohesive research on the history of ritualizing behaviour in different cultures. The relatively new field of ritology, which includes neuroscience, anthropology, cultural psychology, psychotherapy and even art and performance, raises questions about the significance and practice of ritual today. This book is the ... Leer más

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  • The Gap

    The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals

    There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Earth, whereas even our closest animal relatives sit unobtrusively in their dwindling habitats. Yet despite longstanding debates, the nature of this apparent gap has remained unclear. What exactly is the difference between ... Leer más

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  • Homo Sapiens

    Psychology as seen from Evolution

    Traducido por Kieran Tapsell ...
    The themes discussed in this book form part of a revolutionary discipline known under the name of evolutionary psychology, a discipline that has become the most powerful tool discovered to date for man to understand himself. Much of the knowledge revealed by human science is explained as a result of the evolutionary process, using as a premise the theory that the majority of modern mans desires, ... Leer más

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  • Flow

    The Psychology of Optimal Experience

    Series Libro 6 - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    “Csikszentmihalyi arrives at an insight that many of us can intuitively grasp, despite our insistent (and culturally supported) denial of this truth. That is, it is not what happens to us that determines our happiness, but the manner in which we make sense of that reality. . . . The manner in which Csikszentmihalyi integrates research on consciousness, personal psychology and spirituality is ... Leer más

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  • Within Reason

    Rationality and Human Behavior

    de Donald Calne ...
    It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous?In Within Reason, leading neurologist Donald B. Calne investigates the phenomenon of rationality from an astonishingly wide array of ... Leer más

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  • The Happiness Hypothesis

    Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

    The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation shows how a deeper understanding of the world’s philosophical wisdom can enrich and transform our lives.**“Wonderfully smart and readable.” —**Washington PostIn The Happiness Hypothesis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt skillfully combines philosophical wisdom and sci... ... Leer más

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  • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

    de Frans de Waal ...
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  • Minds Make Societies

    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

    de Pascal Boyer ...
    A scientist integrates 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 ... Leer más

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