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,
“... helpful, especially in their discussions of language, too vast a topic to start on here. Melvin Konner’s book complements these two by supplying a rather different range of evidence for the same central point, and also by drawing interesting moral conclusions of its own. Where Reynolds and Walker concentrate on the cognitive faculties, ... ”