ISBN:
9780190231224
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (385 pages)
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DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Social ecology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences explores the meaning of consilience and considers the unity of human evolution, human nature, social dynamics, art, and narrative. Bringing together cutting-edge scientists and scholars across a range of fields of knowledge production, this volume makes it possible to see how far we have come toward unifying knowledge about the human species, what major issues are still in contention, and what areas of research are likely to produce further progress.
Abstract:
Cover -- Darwin's Bridge -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Alice Dreger -- Acknowledgments -- Contributor List -- Introduction by Joseph Carroll -- PART ONE: Transforming Our Vision of the Human Story -- 1. The Meaning of Human Existence -- PART TWO: The Evolution of Human Sociality -- 2. Bullies: Redefining the Human Free-Rider Problem -- 3. The Structure and Evolution of Morality: Public and Private Persona -- 4. Human Kinship as a Green Beard -- 5. Darwinian Evolution of Free Will and Spiritual Experience -- PART THREE: Ancient Markings -- 6. Neanderthal Humanities -- 7. Mark-Making as a Human Behavior -- PART FOUR: Integrative Psychology -- 8. Consilience through the Integration of Engineering and Social Science -- 9. From Actor to Agent to Author: Human Evolution and the Development of Personality -- PART FIVE: A Biocultural Perspective on Literature -- 10. What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common? Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling -- 11. Terrifying Monsters, Malevolent Ghosts, and Evolved Danger Management Architecture: A Consilient Approach to Horror Fiction -- 12. Agonistic Structure in Canonical British Novels of the Nineteenth Century -- 13. Experiments with Experience: Consilient Multilevel Explanations of Art and Literature -- PART SIX: A Challenge -- 14. The Limits of Consilience and the Problem of Scientism -- Afterwords -- Contributors -- Index.
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