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Book Review: How Sidewalk Neuroscience Illuminates Important, Yet Frequently Overlooked and Underappreciated, Aspects of Human Nature

Book Review: How Sidewalk Neuroscience Illuminates Important, Yet Frequently Overlooked and... Evolutionary Psychology www.epjournal.net – 2013. 11(4): 818-820 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Book Review How Sidewalk Neuroscience Illuminates Important, yet Frequently Overlooked and Underappreciated, Aspects of Human Nature A review of Robert Provine, Curious Behavior. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012, 271 pp., US $24.95, ISBN # 978-0-674-04851-5 (hardcover). Andrew C. Gallup, Psychology Department, SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, USA. Email: a.c.gallup@gmail.com (Corresponding author). Craig F. Bielert, Psychology Department, SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, USA. A quick scan of the spine titles and authors at your local bookstore science section shelves might lead you to overlook Curious Behavior, since it is a small book. The author’s name, “Provine”, however, might trigger a recollection of names such as Victor Hamburger, Rita Levi-Montalcini and Konrad Lorenz and you might as a consequence pick up the volume and page through it. This extra attention is worth the effort. Provine’s focus in this book is on what he terms, “elemental human behaviors”. Well-steeped in the tradition of those such as Lorenz, he carries out contrasts between behaviors rather than specifically between phyla and this “small science” approach is refreshingly appropriate, effective and thought provoking. Most people fail to notice http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Evolutionary Psychology SAGE

Book Review: How Sidewalk Neuroscience Illuminates Important, Yet Frequently Overlooked and Underappreciated, Aspects of Human Nature

Evolutionary Psychology , Volume 11 (4): 3 – Oct 1, 2013
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© 2013 SAGE Publications Inc.
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1474-7049
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1474-7049
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10.1177/147470491301100406
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Evolutionary Psychology www.epjournal.net – 2013. 11(4): 818-820 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Book Review How Sidewalk Neuroscience Illuminates Important, yet Frequently Overlooked and Underappreciated, Aspects of Human Nature A review of Robert Provine, Curious Behavior. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012, 271 pp., US $24.95, ISBN # 978-0-674-04851-5 (hardcover). Andrew C. Gallup, Psychology Department, SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, USA. Email: a.c.gallup@gmail.com (Corresponding author). Craig F. Bielert, Psychology Department, SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, USA. A quick scan of the spine titles and authors at your local bookstore science section shelves might lead you to overlook Curious Behavior, since it is a small book. The author’s name, “Provine”, however, might trigger a recollection of names such as Victor Hamburger, Rita Levi-Montalcini and Konrad Lorenz and you might as a consequence pick up the volume and page through it. This extra attention is worth the effort. Provine’s focus in this book is on what he terms, “elemental human behaviors”. Well-steeped in the tradition of those such as Lorenz, he carries out contrasts between behaviors rather than specifically between phyla and this “small science” approach is refreshingly appropriate, effective and thought provoking. Most people fail to notice

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Published: Oct 1, 2013

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