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Mean Genes

From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts

By Jay Phelan, Terry Burnham

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| Paperback | 9780142000076

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"The Mean Genes message is optimistic . . . a self-help book for the merely average human being." (The Washington Post Book World)

"An unusual cross between a social Darwinist monograph and a self-help manual." (The New Yorker)

Why do we want-and do-so many things that Continue

"The Mean Genes message is optimistic . . . a self-help book for the merely average human being." (The Washington Post Book World)

"An unusual cross between a social Darwinist monograph and a self-help manual." (The New Yorker)

Why do we want-and do-so many things that are bad for us? In Mean Genes Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan argue that we need to stop looking to Sigmund Freud for answers and start looking to Charles Darwin. Mean Genes reveals that our struggles for self-improvement are, in fact, battles against our own genes-genes that helped our distant ancestors flourish, but are selfish and out of place in the modern world. Using this evolutionary lens, Mean Genes brilliantly examines the issues that most affect our lives-body image, money, addiction, violence, and relationships, friendship, love, and fidelity-and offers steps to help us lead more satisfying lives.

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  • Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming our Primal Instincts By Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan

    Academic authors are comfortable in their genesWhat do you get when two professorial Ph. D.'s contemplate man's place in the biological world? Quite simply, "an owner's manual for your brain," according to authors Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan. Some o ... (read full critics)

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 272 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0142000078
  • ISBN-13: 9780142000076
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Pub date: Sep 01, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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