Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals

Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for...
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Author: Nathan H. Lents
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Language: English
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Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals by Lents, Nathan H.

Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals

€63,87

Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals

€63,87
Author: Nathan H. Lents
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves miss each other, elephants grieve for their dead, and prairie dogs name the humans they encounter. Human and animal behavior is not as different as once believed.
In Not So Different, the biologist Nathan H. Lents argues that the same evolutionary forces of cooperation and competition have shaped both humans and animals. Identical emotional and instinctual drives govern our actions. By acknowledging this shared programming, the human experience no longer seems unique, but in that loss we gain a fuller appreciation of such phenomena as sibling rivalry and the biological basis of grief, helping us lead more grounded, moral lives among animals, our closest kin. Through a mix of colorful reporting and rigorous scientific research, Lents describes the exciting strides scientists have made in decoding animal behavior and bringing the evolutionary paths of humans and animals closer together. He marshals evidence from psychology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology, and ethology to further advance this work and to drive home the truth that we are distinguished from animals only in degree, not in kind.



Author: Nathan H. Lents
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 11/14/2017
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780231178334

About the Author
Nathan H. Lents is professor of biology and director of the Macaulay Honors College at John Jay College, part of the City University of New York. He is the author of Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (2018). Lents also maintains the Human Evolution Blog and writes for Psychology Today under the tagline "Beastly Behavior: How Evolution Shaped Our Minds and Bodies."

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