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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 155.7 EAN: 9780399533655 ISBN: 0399533656 Label: Perigee Trade Manufacturer: Perigee Trade Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 252 Publication Date: September 04, 2007 Publisher: Perigee Trade Studio: Perigee Trade Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The truth hurts!. Even if its not true. A must read entertaining and politically incorrect truth, this book will probably receive bad reviews from people that see them self in the book, but would rather not. Its all about the human animal we are born, grow, reproduce and die. It's all about sex. But, don't belive everything you read. Rating: - A Basic PrimerFor anyone who has vaguely heard about Evolutionary Psychology, or who finds conventional psychological dogma unconvincing, this is a useful little primer on the basic state of play in the wonderful world of evolutionary psychology. It is written to appeal to the layperson and has nothing that will tax the brain, so it can be read cover-to-cover inside 60 minutes: a good commute book. Kanazawa (for the book is his, despite his generous gesture of giving Miller first author credit) takes ... Read More Rating:  - Blame it on our genesBelieve it or not, there actually are evolutionary explanations as to why (many) men prefer well-endowed blondes, why single women are more likely to travel than single men, and why more neurosurgeons are men (while more kindergarten teachers are women). This book provides those explanations (and so many more) based on research from the fascinating and emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Clearly illuminating the biological and evolutionary influences on human behavior, preferences, thoughts, feelings, ... Read More Rating: - Fun and easy to read introduction to evolutionary psychology.As the book explains, we should not let our feelings about "right and wrong" or "fair and unfair" interfere with learning about these theories. There are many things everywhere in nature that don't seem fair, and we humans are just part of it, although many try to think of us (humans) as above all that. After reading it, some attitudes make sense, and it makes understanding men and women easier. The book is indeed not politically correct, but political correctness should not interfere with knowledge ... Read More Rating: - "Women are the reason men do everything" (p. 133)Many years ago, before evo psych was even sociobiology, some people (usually social scientists) would ask themselves, how did things go down in the prehistory? They realized that our instinctive behaviors were honed on the savannahs of Africa long before we became civilized or even before we became human. The Darwinians among them further realized that the ten thousand or so years since the beginning of agriculture and animal husbandry was not enough time for human nature to have changed much. Ergo, we are ... Read More 
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