Reviews for The evolutionary imperative

The average rating for The evolutionary imperative based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-09-25 00:00:00 Simphiwe Madela This collection of essays attempts to answer questions such as the following (Introduction): "In other words, what are the adaptive behaviors of individuals that perpetuated our species in the distant past? How did our social structure evolve to what it is from what it was? What were the origins of human social behaviors?" Contributors include leading figures in the evolutionary and genetic study of human social behavior, including Joan Loackard (the editor), Pierre van den Berghe, Gene Sackett, David Barash, Jerry Hirsch, and Jerome Barkow. Subjects focused upon in various of the chapters include human communication, reproduction and child rearing, behavioral development, sexual behavior, reproductive strategies, human aggression,self-deception, and cultural behavior. Much of the work is speculative, but it is thought provoking. If interested in the evolutionary origins of human social behavior, this is not a bad book to look at, even though it is three decades old. . . .

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-11 00:00:00 Ckc Lai Overall, this was a wonderful read. It was nice to read a little bit from so many prolific minds in agrarianism that I hadn't read before. Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, and of course, the great Wendell Berry. The book was well divided, yet, within the sections, I thought a couple of the essays/writings were a little irrelevant in that particular section, thus making it seem kind of like quirky fit in the context of that section. By reading this, I was able to read further into the economics and philosophy of agrarianism and that has helped me learn more about the theme and lifestyle to which I grant more appreciation and drive to dive into it myself. Overall a great read to immerse oneself in the different writing styles of many great authors and guides to agrarianism as a whole.