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Survival of the Friendliest audiobook
- By: Brian Hare
- Narrator: René Ruiz
- Category: Anthropology, Physical, Social Science
- Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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Survival of the Friendliest Audiobook Summary
A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness
“Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring—and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time.”—Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge
For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened?
Since Charles Darwin wrote about “evolutionary fitness,” the idea of fitness has been confused with physical strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. In fact, what made us evolutionarily fit was a remarkable kind of friendliness, a virtuosic ability to coordinate and communicate with others that allowed us to achieve all the cultural and technical marvels in human history. Advancing what they call the “self-domestication theory,” Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and his wife, Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, shed light on the mysterious leap in human cognition that allowed Homo sapiens to thrive.
But this gift for friendliness came at a cost. Just as a mother bear is most dangerous around her cubs, we are at our most dangerous when someone we love is threatened by an “outsider.” The threatening outsider is demoted to sub-human, fair game for our worst instincts. Hare’s groundbreaking research, developed in close coordination with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution, reveals that the same traits that make us the most tolerant species on the planet also make us the cruelest.
Survival of the Friendliest offers us a new way to look at our cultural as well as cognitive evolution and sends a clear message: In order to survive and even to flourish, we need to expand our definition of who belongs.
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Survival of the Friendliest Full Details
| Narrator | René Ruiz |
| Length | 6 hours 5 minutes |
| Author | Brian Hare |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593209820 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Survival of the Friendliest is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: Charles Darwin, Joe Biden, Trump, origin of species, political science, democracy, empathy, society, gift books, gifts for men, dad gifts, history books, history, white elephant gifts, science gifts, science books for adults, communication skills, anthropology books, cultural anthropology, anthropology, psychology books, psychology, evolutionary psychology, humanity, developmental psychology, social psychology, brain, cognitive neuroscience, neuroscience, human evolution, evolution, science books, science, survival book, Social Science, Anthropology, Physical, Science, Cognitive Science The BISAC Subject Code is Anthropology, Physical, Social Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Survival of the Friendliest is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593209820.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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