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Denial : self-deception, false beliefs, and the origins of the human mind / Ajit Varki and Danny Brower.

By: Varki, Ajit [author.]Contributor(s): Brower, Danny L [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Twelve, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: First editionDescription: 375 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781455511914Subject(s): Denial (Psychology) | Human evolution | Evolutionary psychologyDDC classification: 155.7 Summary: At a chance meeting in 2005, Danny Brower posed an unusual idea to Ajit Varki that explained the origins of human uniqueness in a revolutionary way. Haunted by this encounter, Varki tried years later to contact Brower, only to find he had died unexpectedly. Inspired by an unfinished manuscript Brower left behind, DENIAL represents a unique collaboration that integrates Varki's own knowledge on human origins, to explain what sets us apart from other animal species: our ability to fully understand the minds of others. This single evolutionary leap, they argue, required crossing a psychological barrier: giving us the uniquely human ability to deny reality in the face of inarguable evidence-including the willful ignorance of our own inevitable deaths.Summary: Evolution.Summary: Evolutionary psychology.

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At a chance meeting in 2005, Danny Brower posed an unusual idea to Ajit Varki that explained the origins of human uniqueness in a revolutionary way. Haunted by this encounter, Varki tried years later to contact Brower, only to find he had died unexpectedly. Inspired by an unfinished manuscript Brower left behind, DENIAL represents a unique collaboration that integrates Varki's own knowledge on human origins, to explain what sets us apart from other animal species: our ability to fully understand the minds of others. This single evolutionary leap, they argue, required crossing a psychological barrier: giving us the uniquely human ability to deny reality in the face of inarguable evidence-including the willful ignorance of our own inevitable deaths.

Evolution.

Evolutionary psychology.

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