Social Life in the Animal World
Author : Friedrich Alverdes
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Friedrich Alverdes
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Ashley Ward
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1541600843
A rat will go out of its way to help a stranger in need. Lions have adopted the calves of their prey. Ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is ruled by competition? In The Social Lives of Animals, biologist Ashley Ward takes us on a wild tour across the globe as he searches for a more accurate picture of how animals build societies. Ward drops in on a termite mating ritual (while his guides snack on the subjects), visits freelance baboon goatherds, and swims with a mixed family of whales and dolphins. Along the way, Ward shows that the social impulses we’ve long thought separated humans from other animals might actually be our strongest connection to them. Insightful, engaging, and often hilarious, The Social Lives of Animals demonstrates that you can learn more about animals by studying how they work together than by how they compete.
Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812979370
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain’s work gets done. This is the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made—the natural habitat of The Social Animal. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. He demolishes conventional definitions of success and looks toward a culture based on trust and humility. The Social Animal is a moving intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. It is an essential book for our time—one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.
Author : Dr. Jens Krause
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199679053
This book demonstrates the application of network theory to the social organization of animals.
Author : Friedrich Alverdes
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : S. Zuckerman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1136311599
This is Volume IV of four in a collection on Comparative Psychology. Originally published in 1932, this study is referred to as a classic, in both historical terms and its usefulness in the study of primates.
Author : Solly Zuckerman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780415209809
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Various
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9552403391
This book contains fourteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. Wheel Publication No. 76: The Threefold Refuge by Nyanaponika Thera; 77–8: Essays and Poems by Dr. Paul Dahlke; 79: The Kandaraka and Potaliya Suttas by Narada Thera & Mahinda Bhikkhu; 80–1: Dialogues on the Dhamma by Francis Story; 82: The Discourse Collection by John D. Ireland; 83–4: With Robes and Bowl by Bhikkhu Khantipalo; 85–6: Buddhism in Thailand by Karuna Kusalasaya; 87: The Greater Discourse on Voidness by Nyanamoli Thera; 88–9: Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology by Douglas M. Burns.
Author : A. Gillette
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0230608906
Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences were also eugenicists. With the rise of behaviourism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behaviour might be influenced by heredity were suppressed for ideological reasons.
Author : Tuomas Räsänen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 135185710X
Animals are conscious beings that form their own perspective regarding the lifeworlds in which they exist, and according to which they act in relation to their species and other animals. In recent decades a thorough transformation in societal research has taken place, as many groups that were previously perceived as being passive or subjugated objects have become active subjects. This fundamental reassessment, first promoted by feminist and radical studies, has subsequently been followed by spatial and material turns that have brought non-human agency to the fore. In human–animal relations, despite a power imbalance, animals are not mere objects but act as agents. They shape our material world and our encounters with them influence the way we think about the world and ourselves. This book focuses on animal agency and interactions between humans and animals. It explores the reciprocity of human–animal relations and the capacity of animals to act and shape human societies. The chapters draw on examples from the Global North to explore how human life in modernity has been and is shaped by the sentience, autonomy, and physicality of various animals, particularly in landscapes where communities and wild animals exist in close proximity. It offers a timely contribution to animal studies, environmental geography, environmental history, and social science and humanities studies of the environment more broadly.