Trouble with Science - Couverture souple

Dunbar, Robin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571174485 ISBN 13 : 9780571174485

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 1996

Synopsis

Examining the widespread sense of the "difficulty" of science, this work considers why many people find it so hard to grasp how science works, why there is so much suspicion of its success, and why many still seek refuge in religion or New Age spirituality. The author draws on anthropological and psychological material, as well as physics, astronomy and chemistry, and provides a wealth of detail and scientific information.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Liverpool and has held fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge and Stockholm. He has been praised for 'writing that is dizzyingly multi-disciplinary but shows great generosity to the ordinary reader' (Guardian). His books include The Trouble with Science (1995), 'an eloquent riposte to the anti-science lobby' (Sunday Times), and Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, praised as 'brilliantly original' and 'a delight to read' (Focus).His main research interests are the evolution of the mind, and the social systems of human and non-human primates; he has carried out field studies of monkeys and antelope in East and West Africa, and of wild goats in Scotland. In June 2003 he led a team of academics which won the largest single grant ever awarded by the British Academy, to research what it means to be human.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571174485
• ISBN 13: 9780571174485
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible