Boyer, Pascal

Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

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ISBN 13:: 9780300248548
author:: Boyer, Pascal
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: Yale University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2020
Pages:: 376
Dimensions:: 23.5 x 15.6 centimetres
Genre:: Nonfiction, Psychology, Cognitive,
Condition:: New
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£16.27

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Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

This groundbreaking book offers a new understanding of human societies by integrating insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields. Evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer presents precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations.

Boyer explores fundamental questions about human behavior, including conflict between groups, the spread of information, and the nature of morality. He provides a fresh perspective on cultural transmission, drawing on the pragmatics of communication, memory, and human motivation for group formation and cooperation.

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