The Biological Roots of Human Nature: Forging Links Between Evolution and Behavior

In this stimulating book, Goldsmith argues that biology has a great deal to say that should be of interest to social scientists, historians, philosophers, and humanists in general. He believes that anyone studying the social behavior of humans must take into consideration both proximate cause—the physiology, biochemistry, and social mechanisms of behavior—and ultimate cause—how the behavior came to exist in evolutionary time. Goldsmith, a neurobiologist, draws examples from neurobiology, ps...