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"This new book by the distinguished sociological theorist Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature, as it was inherited from the common ancestors that humans shared with present-day great apes. This inherited legacy was altered by selection pressures on these ancestors of humans-termed hominins for being bipedal-to get better organized than extant great apes as they were forced from the forest canopies to open country terrestrial habitats. The effects of these selection pressures made humans' hominin ancestors more social and group oriented by increasing their emotional capacities. This, in turn, enabled further selection for a larger brain, articulated speech, and culture along the human line. Turner elaborates human nature as a series of overlapping complexes that are the outcome of the inherited legacy of great apes being fed through the transforming effects of a larger brain, speech, and culture. These complexes, he shows, can be understood as the cognitive complex, the psychological complex, the emotions complex, the interaction complex, and the community complex."

Human evolution --- Sociobiology --- Evolutionary psychology

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How did humans come to be who we are? Foster explores three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness in order to understand perhaps the strangest animal of all: the human being. Readers will experience the Upper Paleolithic era as a Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherer, living in makeshift shelters without amenities in the rural woods of England. For the Neolithic period, when humans stayed in one place and domesticated plants and animals, they learn about a Neolithic settlement. To explore the Enlightenment, Foster finds his world and himself bizarre and disembodied, and he rues the atrophy of our senses, the cause for much of what ails us.

Human behavior --- Consciousness --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human evolution --- Evolution

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What does God's creation of humanity through the process of evolution mean for how we think about human flourishing? Combining scientific evidence with wisdom from the Bible and Christian theology, this introduction explores how the field of evolutionary psychology can be a powerful tool for understanding human nature and our distinctively human purpose.

Psychology and religion --- Evolutionary psychology --- Theology --- Theological anthropology --- Christianity

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This book brings together the disciplines of history and psychology. It is the first study to apply attachment theory to self-narratives of the past, namely examples of life-writing (letters and proto-autobiographies) from medieval England, written in broad religious contexts. It examines whether God could appear as an adequate attachment figure in times of high mortality and often inadequate childrearing practices, and whether the emphasis on God's proximity to believers benefited their psychological reorganisation. The main method of enquiry is discourse analysis based on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) coding.

Civilization --- Psychology, Religious. --- Attachment behavior. --- Evolutionary psychology. --- Psychology and religion. --- Written communication. --- God --- History. --- Knowableness.

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"Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, analytical, and trusting of strangers. They focus on themselves--their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations--over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich tackles this question and others by weaving together cutting-edge research from anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology. Tracking the origins of monogamous nuclear families back into Late Antiquity, Henrich reveals how the Roman Catholic Church unintentionally shifted people's psychology, and the trajectory of Western civilization, by transforming the most fundamental of human institutions: those related to marriage and kinship. It was these social and psychological changes in Europe that eventually catalyzed and coevolved with expanding impersonal markets, rising occupational specialization, and growing competition among voluntary associations--laying the foundation for the modern world. Provocative and engaging in its vast scope and surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history."--Back cover.

Cognitive psychology --- Developmental psychology --- Social interaction --- Human evolution --- Development (Psychology) --- Developmental psychobiology --- Psychology --- Life cycle, Human --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Social psychology --- Origin --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition. --- PSYCHOLOGY / Evolutionary Psychology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Developmental psychology. --- Human evolution. --- Interaction sociale. --- PSYCHOLOGY --- Psychologie cognitive. --- Psychologie du développement. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Social interaction. --- Êtres humains --- Cognitive Psychology & Cognition. --- Evolutionary Psychology. --- Anthropology --- Cultural & Social. --- Évolution.