Homo Novus – A Human Without Illusions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Frey, Ulrich J. (Editor), Störmer, Charlotte (Editor), Willführ, Kai P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Epistemology.; Evolutionary biology.; Psychology.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Cognitive psychology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Popular Science in Psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Sociology, general.

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...