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The marvelous learning animal : what makes human nature unique / Arthur W. Staats.

by Staats, Arthur W.

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Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2012.

Learning, Psychology of.

Learning ability.

Human evolution.

9781616145972 (hbk. : acid-free paper) :

1616145978 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

402 p. ; 24 cm.

Part 1: The great scientific error. Of paradigms and fallacies, of sciences and things -- Part 2: The human animal. Such a body! the versatile animal ; Such a brain! 100,000,000,000 neurons buy a lot of learning -- Part 3: Child development and the missing link. Learning child development ; Marvelous learning: the missing link -- Part 4: Learning human nature. Marvelous learning of personality ; Marvelous learning of abnormal personality -- Part 5: Human evolution and marvelous learning. On the origin of the human species ; Who we are -- Part 6: A human paradigm. The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things.

An exploration of the human capacity for learning examines the subject's vast depths, which have not been fully examined or understood, presenting a new theory of human evolution and suggestions for better explaining behavior.

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