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Sport - A Biological, Philosophical, and Cultural Perspective (Hardcover)
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Sport - A Biological, Philosophical, and Cultural Perspective (Hardcover)
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Sports are as varied as the people who play them. We run, jump, and
swim. We kick, hit, and shoot balls. We ride sleds in the snow and
surf in the sea. From the Olympians of ancient Greece to today's
professional athletes, from adult pickup soccer games to children's
gymnastics classes, people at all levels of ability at all times
and in all places have engaged in sport. What drives this
phenomenon? In Sport, the neuroscientist Jay Schulkin argues that
biology and culture do more than coexist when we play sports-they
blend together seamlessly, propelling each other toward greater
physical and intellectual achievement. To support this claim,
Schulkin discusses history, literature, and art-and engages
philosophical inquiry and recent behavioral research. He connects
sport's basic neural requirements, including spatial and temporal
awareness, inference, memory, agency, direction, competitive
spirit, and endurance, to the demands of other human activities. He
affirms sport's natural role as a creative evolutionary catalyst,
turning the external play of sports inward and bringing insight to
the diversion that defines our species. Sport, we learn, is a
fundamental part of human life.
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