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Di Quanti Amici Abbiamo Bisogno? Frivolezze E Curiosità Evoluzionistiche (2011)

by Robin Dunbar(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8860304229 (ISBN13: 9788860304223)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Raffaello Cortina

review 1: Excellent book by evolutionary biologist. Sweet prose. Brief essays on many fascinating subjects, e.g.: Why Eskimos rub noses in greeting (because the way you smell reveals a lot about your genetic qualities); why tall & facially-symmetrical people are more successful (those qualities indicate good health & good genes); .5% of all men alive today, & 8.5% of all men in central Asia, are descended from Genghis Khan & his brothers, who conquered much of the known world in the early 1200's; the Basques are the only western Europeans who survived the Indo-European conquest which began in about 3,000 BC; etc., etc. If you want to learn about the species of which you are a member, read this book.
review 2: The first thing to keep in mind about this book is tha... moret it is a collection of essays, most of them originally published elsewhere. Thus, some of the ideas are underdeveloped, and there is some repetition one to another. However, it raises many important ideas about "evolutionary psychology," essentially the long roots at work in our minds and social behavior, such as "Dunbar's Number" in which we tend to best associate in groups of 150, have but a few people in our innermost circle, and act in ways suited to the propagation of children. A major take-away point is that our social-psychology cannot evolve as quickly as modern society and technology is evolving, and thus in some ways we are at a state of incongruence with contemporary culture. less

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