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In The Trouble with Science, Robin Dunbar asks whether science really is unique to Western culture, even to humankind. He suggests that our "trouble with science" - our inability to grasp how it works, our suspiciousness of its successes - may lie in the fact that evolution has left our minds better able to cope with day-to-day social interaction than with the complexities of the external world.
About the Author
Robin Dunbar is currently Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His principal research interest is the evolution of sociality. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998. His books include The Trouble with Science, 'an eloquent riposte to the anti-science lobby' (Sunday Times), and Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language. The Human Story was described as 'fizzing with recent research and new theories' in the Sunday Times and 'punchy and provocative' by the New Scientist. How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks was published in 2010.
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- PublisherFaber Paperbacks
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0571174485
- ISBN 13 9780571174485
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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