Animal Nature and Human Nature

ISBN-13: 9781138559837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 460 str.

W. H. Thorpe

Opis

Our views on human nature are fundamental to the whole development, indeed the whole future, of human society. Originally published in 1974, Professor Thorpe believed that this was one of the most important and significant topics to which a biologist can address himself, and in this book he attempts a synthetic view of the nature of man and animal based on the five disciplines of physiology, ethology, genetics, psychology and philosophy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.  Preface.  Part 1: Animal Nature  1. Living and Non-Living  2. Storage, Coding, and Accumulation of Information in Simple Organisms and their Relation to the Processes of Evolution  3. Animal Languages  4. Innate Behaviour versus Acquired Behaviour  5. Animal Perception  Part 2: Human Nature  6. The Development of Human Behaviour  7. Aggressive Behaviour  8. The Uniqueness of Man  9. Problems of Consciousness  10. Emergence and the Human Spirit.  Notes.  References.  Index.

O autorze

W. H. Thorpe