Why the Reckless Survive : And Other Secrets of Human Nature
Language: English
Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 1990
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- Title
- Why the Reckless Survive : And Other Secrets of Human Nature
- Author
- Konner, Melvin
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670829366
- ISBN 13
- 9780670829361
- Edition
- First Edition.
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- 1.003 pounds
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Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This collection of essays puts this reviewer in mind of the Beatles' ditty, "Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say." Konner is a fine writer, but since publication of his genuinely original The Tangled Wing (LJ 9/15/82), he hasn't had much new to tell us about using Darwinian theory to explain human behavior. These essays recapitulate the work of others and strive relentlessly to fit them into the paradigm of sociobiology. But Konner works in a genre, the popularization of science, shaped by two giants, Stephen Jay Gould and Lewis Thomas, and his work seems somewhat ephemeral in contrast to theirs, which continues to enlighten and edify.
- Glenn Petersen, CUNY Graduate Center
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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