Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food - Taming Our Primal Instincts - Rilegato

Burnham, Terry; Phelan, Jay

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ISBN 10: 0743208463 ISBN 13: 9780743208468

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2001

Riassunto

This is a look at why our toughest battles are often with ourselves. This book examines the issues that most affect our lives: body image, money, addiction, violence, and the search for love and happiness. It shows that our struggles are against our own genes and offers steps for beating them.

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Recensione:

'Mean Genes is brilliant-well-grounded evolutionary biology, clear-eyed realism, and advice that is both practical and moral. Delightfully readable' - E.O. Wilson
'Short, sassy and bold ... An intrepid investigation into the biological nature of temptation and the struggle for control, MEAN GENES answers these and other fundamental questions about human behaviour while giving us an edge to lead satisfying lives'
BURTON MAIL
'Intelligent, well-researched...amusing'
WHAT'S ON IN LONDON
'Warning! You will not be able to put this book down! It will change your life. A witty, wise and irreverent work by two highly regarded scholars' IRVEN DEVORE, PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND BIOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
'Humorous, startling and provocative, MEAN GENES offers expert behavioural science and a radical view of the meaning of life' RICHARD WRANGHAM, CO-AUTHOR OF DEMONIC MALES
'Hip, fun, and packed with attitude, MEAN GENES is a laser-guided surgical strike in the self-control battles we fight every day. Burham and Phelan not only unmask the devil inside us, they hand us the tools to disarm him' ROBERT FRANK, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, CORNELL UNIVERSITY AND AUTHOR OF LUXURY FEVER

L'autore:

Terry Burnham is an economics professor at Harvard where he studies the Darwinian origin of economic behaviours. He has worked on Wall Street and co-founded Progenics, a biotechnology firm with promising treatments for cancer and AIDS. Jay Phelan is a biology professor at UCLA; his main area of research is evolutionary genetics and ageing. He has been featured on the BBC, as well as in magazines and newspapers.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0743208463
• ISBN 13: 9780743208468
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272