Sex, Power, and Partisanship
How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
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Hector A. Garcia
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An evolutionary psychologist traces the roots of political divisions back to our primate ancestors and male-dominated social hierarchies. Through the lens of evolutionary science, this book offers a novel perspective on why we hold our political ideas and why they are so often in conflict. Drawing on examples from across the animal kingdom, clinical psychologist Hector A. Garcia reveals how even the most complex political processes can be influenced by our basic drives to survive and reproduce - including the policies we back, whether we are liberal or conservative, and whether we are inspired or repelled by the words of a president. The author demonstrates how our political orientations derive from an ancestral history of violent male competition, surprisingly influencing how we respond to issues as wide-ranging as affirmative action, women's rights, social welfare, abortion, foreign policy, and even global warming. Critically, the author shows us how our instinctive political tribalism can keep us from achieving stable, functioning societies, and offers solutions for rising above our ancestral past.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- De: Steven Pinker
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 36 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,362
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,512
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,465
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'd kill for another book this good
- De Eric en 11-11-11
De: Steven Pinker
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The Science of Good and Evil
- Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
- De: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 2 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
In The Science of Good and Evil, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates into moral primates, how and why morality motivates the human animal, and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence. Along the way he explains the implications of scientific findings for fate and free will, the existence of pure good and pure evil, and the development of early moral sentiments among the first humans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read by author
- De Gregory A. Townsend en 04-16-23
De: Michael Shermer
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The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- De: Joseph Henrich
- Narrado por: Korey Jackson
- Duración: 19 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 486
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 383
In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lots of mispronounced words
- De Phil F en 10-24-20
De: Joseph Henrich
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Cool
- How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World
- De: Steven Quartz, Anette Asp
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 10 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 107
In Cool, the neuroscientist and philosopher Steven Quartz and the political scientist Anette Asp bring together the latest findings in brain science, economics, and evolutionary biology to form a provocative theory of consumerism, revealing how the brain's "social calculator" and an instinct to rebel are the crucial missing links in understanding the motivations behind our spending habits.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some Useful Ideas
- De Carson en 07-20-17
De: Steven Quartz, y otros
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Blueprint
- The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
- De: Nicholas A. Christakis
- Narrado por: Nicholas A. Christakis
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 910
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 770
For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions - our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations - we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Many interesting thoughts
- De Jonas Blomberg Ghini en 06-01-19
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The Human Swarm
- How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
- De: Mark W. Moffett
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 166
In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology, and anthropology to explain the social adaptations that bind societies. He explores how the tension between identity and anonymity defines how societies develop, function, and fail. Surpassing Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, The Human Swarm reveals how mankind created sprawling civilizations of unrivaled complexity - and what it will take to sustain them.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Worthless
- De Richard en 11-24-19
De: Mark W. Moffett
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Identity
- The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
- De: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 634
In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people”, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Robotic narrator
- De Shahin en 09-19-18
De: Francis Fukuyama
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- De: Nicholas Wade
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 415
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years - to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is NOT Racism!...
- De Douglas en 06-01-14
De: Nicholas Wade
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Sex and War
- How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
- De: Malcom Potts, Thomas Hayden
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 120
Human beings have been battling one another since time immemorial. But why war and terrorism? Why are men almost always the killers, and why are war and sex so inextricably linked? Why do we kill members of our own species intentionally, when few other animals do so?
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2 out of 5 stars
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This is the Berkley view point on terriorism
- De J.T. en 08-22-11
De: Malcom Potts, y otros
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- De: Christopher Ryan
- Narrado por: Christopher Ryan
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,363
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,064
Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending - balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the "progress" defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I couldn't stop listening.
- De Andrew in Ohio en 10-08-19
De: Christopher Ryan
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The Mind of the Market
- Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
The Mind of the Market will change the way we think about the economics of everyday life. Drawing on research from neuroeconomics, Michael Shermer explores what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and how trust is established in business. Utilizing experiments in behavioral economics, Shermer shows why people hang on to losing stocks and failing companies, why business negotiations often disintegrate into emotional tit-for-tat disputes, and why money does not make us happy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good ideas overshadowed by obnoxious polemics
- De Philo en 09-15-13
De: Michael Shermer
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The Spirit Level
- Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
- De: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Important Book
- De Stephen Schoenberg en 12-19-11
De: Richard Wilkinson, y otros
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On Human Nature: Revised Edition
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 256
This revised edition of Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Heralding Voice...
- De Douglas en 07-22-14
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Mating Intelligence Unleashed
- The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love
- De: Scott Barry Kaufman PhD., Glenn Geher PhD., Helen Fisher PhD. - foreword
- Narrado por: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
Psychologists often paint a picture of human mating as visceral, instinctual. But that's not the whole story. In courtship and display, sexual competition and rivalry, we are also guided by what Glenn Geher and Scott Barry Kaufman call Mating Intelligence - a range of mental abilities that have evolved to help us find the right partner. Mating Intelligence is at work in our efforts to form, maintain, and end relationships. It guides us in flirtation, foreplay, copulation, finding and choosing a mate, and many other behaviors.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tedious with the gems buried deep within
- De Matt J en 09-26-15
De: Scott Barry Kaufman PhD., y otros
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Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
- De: Alan S. Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 488
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 364
Contrary to conventional wisdom, our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission that determines much of what we do, from life plans to everyday decisions. With an accessible tone and a healthy disregard for political correctness, this lively and eminently readable book popularizes the latest research in a cutting-edge field of study: one that turns much of what we thought we knew about human nature upside-down.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not bad but didn't live up to the reviews
- De Ana Mohammed en 01-08-12
De: Alan S. Miller, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sex, Power, and Partisanship
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- Buena Homes
- 02-07-23
Interesting take on human life
Like any other white colonizers perspective , this book focuses on white people ideals but I’m glad that at the end the author mentioned the native Americans form of government, but nevertheless it lacks of considerable knowledge about how natives created and lived for thousands of years before colonizers squatters invaded and “reformed” and claimed “democracy
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- Mary P
- 11-10-22
anti-conservative diatribe
Lost me at the outrageous and highly inaccurate portrayal of Trump's alleged (and subsequently disproven) Russian collusion during the 2016 election. Didn't even bother to listen to the rest of this garbage.
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