- Behavior evolution, Cognition and culture, Genetic psychology, Sociobiology
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Cool, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Jerome H. Barkow
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 666
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780195101072
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“Disciplines such as astronomy, chemistry, physics, geology, and biology have developed a robust combination of logical coherence, causal description, explanatory power, and testability, and have become examples of how reliable and deeply satisfying human knowledge can become.”
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