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This Lively, Provocative Text Presents A New Way To Understand Friendship. Professor John Terrell Argues That The Ability To Make Friends Is An Evolved Human Trait Not Unlike Our Ability To Walk Upright On Two Legs Or Our Capacity For Speech And Complex Abstract Reasoning. Terrell Charts How This Trait Has Evolved By Investigating Two Unique Functions Of The Human Brain: The Ability To Remake The Outside World To Suit Our Collective Needs, And Our Capacity To Escape Into Our Own Inner Thoughts And Imagine How Things Might And Ought To Be. The Text Is Richly Illustrated And Written In An Engaging Style, And Will Appeal To Students, Scholars, And General Readers Interested In Anthropology, Evolutionary And Cognitive Science, And Psychology More Broadly-- Part One. What Makes Us Human? 1. Being Human ; 2. Baron Von Pufendorf ; 3. Ghost Theories ; 4. The Secret Lives Of Lou, Laurence, And Leslie -- Part Two. The Archaeology Of Friendship. 5. Suddenly All Was Chaos ; 6. A Wimpy Idea ; 7. In The Footsteps Of A.b. Lewis ; 8. Confronting The Obvious ; 9. The Archaeology Of Friendship ; 10. The Sign Of The Sea Turtle ; 11. Drawing Conclusions -- Part Three. Selfish Desires. 12. Houston, We'

Author

John Edward Terrell

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199386475

Subjects

Psychology, Sociology, Social_sciences