Instinct
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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What drives living creatures to act — not from reason or learned habit, but from something deeper, more primal, and altogether more mysterious? Instinct, edited by Robert C. Birney and Richard C. Teevan as part of the Van Nostrand Insight Book series, is a landmark anthology that gathers the most significant and provocative writings on instinctive behavior, assembling a rich tapestry of perspectives from biology, psychology, and ethology. The collection presents foundational arguments about the nature of innate drives, tracing the scientific debate from early instinct theorists through to mid-twentieth century behaviorists and ethologists, situating the reader at the very heart of one of psychology's most enduring controversies. Birney and Teevan curate with precision and scholarly authority, drawing together voices that both champion and challenge the concept of instinct, illuminating the fault lines between nature and nurture with clarity and intellectual rigor. The anthology is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how science has grappled with the biological roots of behavior — and the questions it raises about human nature remain as urgent and unresolved today as ever.
Author: Robert C. Birney And Richard C. Teevan
Format: Paperback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What drives living creatures to act — not from reason or learned habit, but from something deeper, more primal, and altogether more mysterious? Instinct, edited by Robert C. Birney and Richard C. Teevan as part of the Van Nostrand Insight Book series, is a landmark anthology that gathers the most significant and provocative writings on instinctive behavior, assembling a rich tapestry of perspectives from biology, psychology, and ethology. The collection presents foundational arguments about the nature of innate drives, tracing the scientific debate from early instinct theorists through to mid-twentieth century behaviorists and ethologists, situating the reader at the very heart of one of psychology's most enduring controversies. Birney and Teevan curate with precision and scholarly authority, drawing together voices that both champion and challenge the concept of instinct, illuminating the fault lines between nature and nurture with clarity and intellectual rigor. The anthology is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how science has grappled with the biological roots of behavior — and the questions it raises about human nature remain as urgent and unresolved today as ever.