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Om religionernas uppkomst
Av Robin Dunbar
Inbunden, 2023
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
273 kr
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Under hela vår historia har religiös tro varit en del av den mänskliga tillvaron – från de förhistoriska människornas grottmålningar till andlighetens fortlevnad i dagens alltmer sekulära samhällen. Faktum är att religion tycks vara nära förbundet med människans evolution. I Om religionernas …
How Religion Evolved
And Why It Endures
Av Robin Dunbar
Häftad, 2023
2,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
127 kr
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A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologistWhen did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured?Every society in the history of humanity has …
Evolution
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Av Robin Dunbar
Häftad, 2020
147 kr
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Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures-and greatly impacts modern …
Human Story
Av Robin Dunbar
Häftad, 2005
145 kr
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A wonderfully accessible, up-to-the-minute account of human evolution by 'one of the most respected evolutionary psychologists in Britain' (Guardian). Of the dozen or so hominid species once in existence, why are we the only one to have survived? What is it that sets us so firmly apart from all the …
Ikonoklasm : förkastandet av det förflutna
Av Robin Dunbar, Andreas Winkler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
274 kr
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Ikonoklasm, eller bildstormande, är en del av vår historia: från förstörelsen av religiösa bilder under den tidiga kristendomen till dagens nedrivning av statyer på sydstatsgeneraler och slavhandlare. Bilder, byggnader och föremål som strider mot religiös eller ideologisk övertygelse måste …
Friends
Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Av Robin Dunbar
Häftad, 2022
153 kr
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'Fascinating...In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking' Guardian, Book of the DayFriends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most …
Historien om människan : nya tankar om mänsklighetens tillblivelse
Av Robin Dunbar
Inbunden, 2006
190 kr
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Evolution
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Av Robin Dunbar
Inbunden, 2021
780 kr
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Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures-and greatly impacts modern …
Human Evolutionary Psychology
Av Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
855 kr
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Other people and their behaviour are a subject of endless fascination for us. Our understanding of why we behave in certain ways can be greatly enhanced if we take an evolutionary perspective. Understanding the evolutionary pressures that have shaped human behaviour can give us a new insight into …
Human Evolution
A Pelican Introduction
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2014
108 kr
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What makes us human?How did we develop language, thought and culture?Why did we survive, and other human species fail?The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human history when there has been only one human species. How did this extraordinary proliferation of species come …
Thinking Big
How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind
Av Clive Gamble, John Gowlett m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
107 kr
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When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and provocative book that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups, and to …
Evolution
What Everyone Needs to Know(R)
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2020
110 kr
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Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures-and greatly impacts modern …
Evolution
What Everyone Needs to Know(R)
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2020
112 kr
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Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures-and greatly impacts modern …
Alcohol and Humans
A Long and Social Affair
Av Robin Dunbar, Kimberley Hockings
E-bok, 2019
755 kr
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Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. The prevailing tendency to view alcohol merely as a ''social problem'' or the popular notion that alcohol only serves to provide us with a ''hedonic'' high, masks its importance in the social fabric of many human societies both past and present. To …
Alcohol and Humans
A Long and Social Affair
Av Robin Dunbar, Kimberley Hockings
E-bok, 2019
755 kr
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Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. The prevailing tendency to view alcohol merely as a ''social problem'' or the popular notion that alcohol only serves to provide us with a ''hedonic'' high, masks its importance in the social fabric of many human societies both past and present. To …
Social Brain, Distributed Mind
Av DUNBAR ET AL, Robin Dunbar m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1646 kr
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To understand who we are and why we are, we need to understand both modern humans and the ancestral stages that brought us to this point. The core to that story has been the role of evolving cognition -the social brain - in mediating the changes in behaviour that we see in the archaeological …
Alcohol and Humans
A Long and Social Affair
Av Kimberley Hockings, Robin Dunbar
Inbunden, 2019
1060 kr
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Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. The prevailing tendency to view alcohol merely as a 'social problem' or the popular notion that alcohol only serves to provide us with a 'hedonic' high, masks its importance in the social fabric of many human societies both past and present. To …
How Religion Evolved
And Why It Endures
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2022
108 kr
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A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologistWhen did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured?Every society in the history of humanity has …
How Religion Evolved
And Why It Endures
Av Robin Dunbar
Ljudbok, 2022
166 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. Religion is both unique - as far as we can judge - and universal to humans. Our species diverged from the great apes about six to eight million years ago and since then, along with language, our propensity towards spiritual thinking and ritual emerged. How, when and why …
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?
Dunbar'S Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2010
114 kr
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We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colours our everyday lives - from why we kiss to how religious we are. In How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behaviour, through the groundbreaking experiments that …
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2011
103 kr
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Did mankind evolve unusually large brains simply in order to gossip? Primates differ from other animals by the intensity of their social relationships, by the amount of time they spend grooming one another. Not just a matter of hygiene, grooming is all about cementing bonds, making friends and …
Trouble with Science
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2011
100 kr
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The 'trouble' with science began in 1632, when Galileo demolished the belief that the earth is the centre of the universe. Yet despite the bewildering success of the scientific revolution, many continue to hanker after the cosy certainties of a man-centred universe, and young people increasingly …
Human Story
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2011
98 kr
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A fascinating account of the latest thinking on human evolution, by 'one of the most respected evolutionary psychologists in Britain'.For scientists studying evolution, the past decade has seen astonishing advances across many disciplines - discoveries which have revolutionised scientific thinking …
Science of Love and Betrayal
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2012
112 kr
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Falling in love is one of the strangest things we can do - and one of the things that makes us uniquely human. But what happens to our brains when our eyes meet across a crowded room? Why do we kiss each other, forget our friends, seek a 'good sense of humour' in Lonely Hearts adverts and try (and …
Science of Love
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2012
220 kr
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A scientific exploration of some of humanity''s most puzzling questions: What is love? Why do we fall in (and out) of love? And why would we have evolved to feel something so weird, with so many downsides? Whether you live for Valentine''s Day or are the type to forget your wedding anniversary, …
Science of Love
Av Robin Dunbar
E-bok, 2012
220 kr
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A scientific exploration of some of humanity''s most puzzling questions: What is love? Why do we fall in (and out) of love? And why would we have evolved to feel something so weird, with so many downsides? Whether you live for Valentine''s Day or are the type to forget your wedding anniversary, …
Human Evolutionary Psychology
Av Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
935 kr
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Other people and their behaviour are a subject of endless fascination for us. Our understanding of why we behave in certain ways can be greatly enhanced if we take an evolutionary perspective. Understanding the evolutionary pressures that have shaped human behaviour can give us a new insight into …
