ISBN:
9783319704012
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (874 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Human behavior
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Praise for the Book -- Standing on the Shoulders of Farsighted Humans -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Standing on the Shoulders of Others -- 1.2 Notes on Interdisciplinarity -- Chapter 2: Death and Cosmic Purpose of Life -- 2.1 Quests to Find a Cosmic Purpose of Life -- 2.2 Beliefs, Religion, and Evolution -- 2.3 Fear of Death, Purpose, and Human Evolution -- 2.4 Teleology, Morality, and Organized Religions -- 2.5 Beliefs, Atheism, and Spirituality -- Chapter 3: Our Place in Nature, Progress, and Racism -- 3.1 Quests to Understand Our Place in Nature -- 3.2 Cultural and Innate Notions of Race -- 3.3 Aristotle, Galen, Monkeys, and Chain of Being -- 3.4 Apes and Rise of Innate Notions of "Race" -- 3.5 Apish Humans, Malthus, and Darwin -- 3.6 Medical Experimentation, Eugenics, and Genocide -- Chapter 4: Myths and Reality About "Savages" and "Civilization" -- 4.1 "Savages," "Civilization," and Inequality -- 4.2 Agriculture, Labor, Slavery, and "Progress" -- 4.3 Hobbes, Rousseau's "Noble Savage," and Violence -- Chapter 5: Sex, Love, Marriage, and Misogyny -- 5.1 Homosexuality, Sex, and Romantic Love -- 5.2 Agriculture, "Original Sin," and Monogamy -- 5.3 Women, Men, Sexual Desire, and Orgasms -- 5.4 Sex at Dawn, Sex at Dusk, and Scientific Biases -- 5.5 History of Marriage, Love, and Sex -- 5.6 Misogyny, Religion, and Hypatia of Alexandria -- 5.7 Myths and Facts About Gender Roles and Differences -- Chapter 6: Darwin, Capitalism, Colonialism, and Beliefs -- 6.1 Darwin's Idolization, Darwinism, and Just-so-Stories -- 6.2 Purpose, Struggle-for-Life, and Selfish Genes -- 6.3 "Higher" or "Favored" Groups, Racism, and Capitalism -- 6.4 "Savages," Colonialism, Slavery, and Neo-colonialism -- Chapter 7: Brains, Conspiracies, Witches, and Animal Abuse.
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