{"product_id":"9780195179668","title":"The Bridge to Humanity: How Affect Hunger Trumps the Selfish Gene","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bridge to Humanity: How Affect Hunger Trumps the Selfish Gene\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship of biology and culture in the evolution of human behavior. Building upon several of the theoretical issues he first addressed in \u003ci\u003eMan's Way\u003c\/i\u003e, renowned anthropologist Walter Goldschmidt presents a unique look at how human culture functions through biological mechanisms that have evolved from our distant past.\u003cbr\u003e \"Affect hunger\"—the need for affective expressions from others—underlies nurturance and mutuality. Goldschmidt contends that affect hunger—in combination with other factors unique to the human species—in effect \"trumps\" the selfish gene and is therefore the \u003ci\u003eessential missing key\u003c\/i\u003e to understanding human behavior. Employing discussions of primate behavior, ethnographies, cognitive studies, psychological research, and hormonal and neurological studies, he demonstrates how affect hunger not only provides a reward system for learning language and other cultural information, but also remains a motive for social behavior throughout life. Transforming the debate on nature \u003ci\u003eversus\u003c\/i\u003e culture to one on nature \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e culture, \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge to Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fresh perspective on the ways that biology and culture fit together. Indeed, in this book Goldschmidt reinterprets anthropological knowledge, profoundly affecting all students concerned with human behavior and reaching far beyond the discipline's borders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022859813104,"sku":"9780195179668","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195179668_p0.jpg?v=1763779593","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195179668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}