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Minds Make Societies

How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

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Minds Make Societies

Written by: Pascal Boyer
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies

“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.

Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles. In fascinating, thought-provoking passages, he explores questions such as: Why is there conflict between groups? Why do people believe low-value information such as rumors? Why are there religions? What is social justice? What explains morality? Boyer provides a new picture of cultural transmission that draws on the pragmatics of human communication, the constructive nature of memory in human brains, and human motivation for group formation and cooperation.

©2018 Pascal Boyer. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Anthropology Biological Sciences Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Science Social Psychology & Interactions Social Sciences Social Cognition
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I normally refrain myself from giving adverse review to a book, thinking that I may be at fault in understanding the nuances of insights given in the book. I normally read 4 to 5 good books per month. and in my last 30 books I read ,this comes down at the bottom of the rank.
A reader shall be able to grasp the concept in more or less one paragraph,but here the author takes a labyrinth road to make you understand even a simple concept.
compare this book with David eagleman story of brain or How emotions are made which do a great justice in this particular genre.

Read it at your own peril

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although writen in tough and tedious language. But provide good information about most interesting aspects of human social behaviour.

nice book

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