Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You

Busting Myths about Human Nature

Agustín Fuentes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2015
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28599-6 (ISBN)

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Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, this book incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution, requiring us to dispose of notions of nature or nurture. It also includes scientific evidence from diverse fields including anthropology, biology, and psychology.

There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative, Agustin Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, Fuentes incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution, requiring us to dispose of notions of nature or nurture. Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields including anthropology, biology, and psychology Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy and differences between the sexes. A final chapter plus an appendix provide a set of take-home points on how readers can myth-bust on their own. Accessible, compelling, and original, this book is a rich and nuanced account of how nature, culture, experience, and choice interact to influence human behavior.

Agustin Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Evolution of Human Behavior, Biological Anthropology: Concepts and Connections and Core Concepts in Biological Anthropology.

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Part 1. Myth-Busting Tool Kit 1. Myths about Human Nature Are Powerful--and Misleading 2. Culture--Problems with What We Believe about Being Human 3. Evolution Is Important--but May Not Be What We Think Part 2. Busting Three Myths about Being Human Prelude: Human ? Nature + Nurture 4. The Myth of Race 5. Myths about Aggression 6. Myths about Sex 7. Beyond the Myths: Now What? Appendix: Getting the Information Yourself Notes Bibliography Index

Zusatzinfo	1 b-w photograph, 8 line illustrations, 1 table
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-28599-9 / 0520285999
ISBN-13	978-0-520-28599-6 / 9780520285996
Zustand	Neuware