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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Varki, Ajit.     Subjects     Denial (Psychology)     Human evolution.     Evolutionary psychology.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Varki, Ajit.       by title:      Denial [electronic r...         MARC Display

Denial [electronic resource] : self-deception, false beliefs, and the origins of the human mind / Ajit Varki and Danny Brower. by Varki, Ajit. New York : Twelve, c2013. Subjects Denial (Psychology)   Human evolution.   Evolutionary psychology. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=37CE407A-0E6B-46CF-855F-8DB4072D77C2 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/{37CE407A-0E6B-46CF-855F-8DB4072D77C2}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781455579181 (electronic bk.) 1455579181 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (375 p.) Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  Introduction: An improbable but true story -- Where did we come from, and how did we get here? -- Becoming smarter shouldn't be hard -- There are no free lunches or free smarts -- Many levels of awareness -- The wall -- Breaking though the wall -- How did reality denial emerge? -- Evidence for reality denial is all around us! -- Too smart for our own good -- A tale of two futures: are you a pessimist or an optimist? -- On the positive value of human reality denial -- Explaining the mysterious origin of us -- Future directions -- Epilogue -- Coda. Requests:  0 Summary:  Describes why humans are able to deny reality and ignore their own inevitable deaths to the detriment of the entire species and what might be done to change this mindset.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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