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Beast or angel? : choices that make us human /

A microbiologist inquires into the origins of human needs and desires, and shows that the existential expressions of man's genetic nature are not constant.

Основен автор: Dubos, Rene J. 1901-1982
Формат: Книга
Език: English
French
Публикувано: New York : Scribner, c1974.
Предмети:
Social evolution.
Human evolution.
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Съдържание:
  • Foreword:
  • Conveying French into English
  • 1.
  • Stability and adaptability of humankind:
  • Old world and new world
  • The saga of the human species
  • The races of man
  • Biological Freudianism
  • Social adaptations
  • 2.
  • Choosing to be human:
  • The bestiality of the human species
  • The humanness of the human species
  • Individualism and collectivity
  • Humanity and the beast
  • 3.
  • The past in the present:
  • The cave and the horizon
  • Cities old and new
  • The clan and the stranger
  • Life in the city
  • Crowds and machines
  • Hauts Lieux and monuments
  • 4.
  • At home on Earth:
  • Yesterday's future shock
  • The camp and the open road
  • Ulysses and the American frontier
  • Technologic Utopia
  • The incarnations of humankind
  • Revolutions and resurrection
  • 5.
  • On the pleasures of being human:
  • The diversity of human life
  • Pluralism and the world order
  • Adventure and fantasy
  • Joie de Vivre and happiness.

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