Animal, Spiritual and Cerebral
Mary Midgley, 18 August 1983
On the Evolution of Human Behaviour
by Peter Reynolds.
California, 259 pp., £20, December 1981,0 520 04294 8 Show More
by Peter Reynolds.
California, 259 pp., £20, December 1981,
The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
by Melvin Konner.
Heinemann, 436 pp., £16.50, October 1982,0 434 39703 2 Show More
by Melvin Konner.
Heinemann, 436 pp., £16.50, October 1982,
Sociobiology and the Human Dimension
by Georg Breuer.
Cambridge, 264 pp., £22.50, January 1983,0 521 24544 3 Show More
by Georg Breuer.
Cambridge, 264 pp., £22.50, January 1983,
Sociobiology and the Pre-Emption of Social Science
by Alexander Rosenberg.
Blackwell, 210 pp., £9.90, March 1981,0 631 12625 2 Show More
by Alexander Rosenberg.
Blackwell, 210 pp., £9.90, March 1981,
“... In what ways are people similar to other animals, and in what ways are they different? There are real problems of method about the right approach to this question, but they are nothing to the emotional ones which rise, like a buzzing cloud of insects, as soon as we approach its frontiers. The need to determine answers in advance of investigations is perhaps felt more strongly in this area than in any other outside political history – if indeed it is outside it ... ”