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Darwin's Psychology (Hardcover, 1)
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Darwin's Psychology (Hardcover, 1)
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Darwin has long been hailed as forefather to behavioural science,
especially nowadays, with the growing popularity of evolutionary
psychologies. Yet, until now, his contribution to the field of
psychology has been somewhat understated. This is the first book
ever to examine the riches of what Darwin himself wrote about
psychological matters. It unearths a Darwin new to contemporary
science, whose first concern is the agency of organisms - from
which he derives both his psychology, and his theory of evolution.
A deep reading of Darwin's writings on climbing plants and babies,
blushing and bower-birds, worms and facial movements, shows that,
for Darwin, evolution does not explain everything about human
action. Group-life and culture are also keys, whether we discuss
the dynamics of conscience or the dramas of desire. Thus his
treatment of facial actions sets out from the anatomy and
physiology of human facial movements, and shows how these gain
meanings through their recognition by others. A discussion of
blushing extends his theory to the way reading others' expressions
rebounds on ourselves - I care about how I think you read me. This
dynamic proves central to how Darwin understands sexual desire, the
production of conscience and of social standards through group
dynamics, and the role of culture in human agency. Presenting a new
Darwin to science, and showing how widely Darwin's understanding of
evolution and agency has been misunderstood and misrepresented in
biology and the social sciences, this important new book lights a
new way forward for those who want to build psychology on the
foundation of evolutionary biology
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