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  title info:
    title: Homo Novus – A Human Without Illusions
  name:
    name part: Frey, Ulrich J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Störmer, Charlotte.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Willführ, Kai P.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 291 p. online resource.
  abstract: Converging evidence from disciplines including sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us to adopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such as free will, naïve realism, humans as creation's crowning glory fall and our moral roots in ape group dynamics become clearer, we have to take leave of many concepts that have been central to defining our humanness. What emerges is a new human, the homo novus, a human being without illusions. Leading authors from many different fields explore these issues by addressing these illusions and providing evidence for the need to switch to this new idea of man, in spite of understandable reluctance to let go of our most beloved illusions.
  table of contents: Humans Are Exceptional -- The Position of Man in the Cosmos -- Living Differences -- Nothing to Talk About -- We Are Independent of Our Sociobiological Roots -- The True Egoist Is Cooperative -- The Social Brain and Its Implications -- Why Most Theories Get It Wrong -- The Biological Imperative Doesn’t Matter to Us -- Mortality Crises and Their Consequences for Human Life Histories -- Costs and Consequences of Reproduction -- Height and Reproductive Success -- The Past Doesn’t Echo in Our Heads -- Developmental Psychology Without Dualistic Illusions -- The Psychology of Families -- Moral, Religion and Culture Are Social Constructions -- Moral Normativity Is (Naturally) Grown -- The Origins of Symbolic Culture -- Belief in Melanesia -- We Are Free in What We Want -- Free Will -- Could I Have Done Otherwise? -- Epilogue -- Modern Illusions of Humankind.
  note: edited by Ulrich J. Frey, Charlotte Störmer, Kai P. Willführ.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  classification: QH359-425
  classification: 576.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783642121425
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12142-5
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    record creation date: 100825
    record change date: 20151204190112.0
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