Human Instinct Evolved Reason by Miller Kenneth (40 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. From one of America?s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows ?why, in light of our origins, humans are still special? (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Evolution).Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on Earth?a place confirmed by the literature and traditions of every human tribe. But then the theory of evolution arrived to shake the tree of human understanding to its roots. To many of the most passionate advocates for Darwin?s theory, we are just one species among multitudes, no more significant than any other. Even our minds are not our own, they tell us, but living machines programmed for nothing but survival and reproduction. In The Human Instinct, Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller ?confronts both lay and professional misconceptions about evolution? (Publishers Weekly, starred review), showing that while evolution explains how our bodies and brains were shaped, that heritage does not limit or predetermine human behavior. In fact, Miller argues in this ?highly recommended? (Forbes) work that it is only thanks to evolution that we have the power to shape our destiny. Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct makes an ?absorbing, lucid, and engaging?case that it was evolution that gave us our humanity? (Ursula Goodenough, professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis).…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. From one of America?s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows ?why, in light of our origins, humans are still special? (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Evolution).Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on Earth?a place confirmed by the literature and traditions of every human tribe. But then the theory of evolution arrived to shake the tree of human understanding to its roots. To many of the most passionate advocates for Darwin?s theory, we are just one species among multitudes, no more significant than any other. Even our minds are not our own, they tell us, but living machines programmed for nothing but survival and reproduction. In The Human Instinct, Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller ?confronts both lay and professional misconceptions about evolution? (Publishers Weekly, starred review), showing that while evolution explains how our bodies and brains were shaped, that heritage does not limit or predetermine human behavior. In fact, Miller argues in this ?highly recommended? (Forbes) work that it is only thanks to evolution that we have the power to shape our destiny. Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct makes an ?absorbing, lucid, and engaging?case that it was evolution that gave us our humanity? (Ursula Goodenough, professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis).…

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Hardcover. A radical, optimistic exploration of how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will. Lately, the most passionate advocates of the theory of evolution seem to present it as bad news. Scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, and Sam Harris tell us that our most intimate actions, thoughts, and values are mere byproducts of thousands of generations of mindless adaptation. We are just one species among multitudes, and therefore no more significant than any other living creature. Now comes Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller to make the case that this view betrays a gross misunderstanding of evolution. Natural selection surely explains how our bodies and brains were shaped, but Miller argues that it's not a social or cultural theory of everything. In The Human Instinct, he rejects the idea that our biological heritage means that human thought, action, and imagination are pre-determined, describing instead the trajectory that ultimately gave us reason, consciousness and free will. A proper understanding of evolution, he says, reveals humankind in its glorious uniqueness--one foot planted firmly among all of the creatures we've evolved alongside, and the other in the special place of self-awareness and understanding that we alone occupy in the universe. Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct is a moving and powerful celebration of what it means to be human.…