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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Animals act from deep, complex, often selfish motives, yet they aren’t always fully conscious of them all.
Chapter 3: Humans often prefer to keep unpleasant motives concealed from themselves, too.
Chapter 4: Humans are intelligent because competition shaped us to be so.
Chapter 5: Social norms curb needless competition, yet they require a community to enforce them.
Chapter 6: We rarely notice body language, which often leaves us pleasantly, even blissfully, quite unaware.
Chapter 7: We purchase goods to flaunt personal status – and our idealized personality traits – to others too.
Chapter 8: Although art isn’t vital for survival, it can confer a competitive edge in sexual selection.
Description
The Elephant in the Brain (2018) explores the selfish motives that drive much of human behavior but which we’d much rather remain unaware of.
Who Should Listen
- Students of psychology and anthropology
- People interested in evolutionary theory
- Anyone curious about the dynamics of human behavior