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Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This viewpoint--a persistent paradigm of our own unique self-importance--is as dangerous as it is false.
In Through a Glass Brightly, noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size," and how humanity...
About the Author
David P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington. He has written more than 280 peer-reviewed articles and nearly 40 books. Barash has penned op-eds in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as numerous pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nautilus, and aeon.
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"Wise, witty, literate, well-read, this is David Barash at his best. A true scholar-scientist." - Richard Dawkins, author (most recently) of Science in the Soul and The Selfish Gene
"David Barash's brilliant, fact-filled, and thoroughly enjoyable Through a Glass Brightly is devoted to taking us humans down a peg or two - or five or six. Every pretention we have to being bigger or better or brighter is deftly skewered...
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0190673710
- ISBN 13 9780190673710
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages216
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