Revista Quinchamalí

Revista de literatura Chile

Libros de Antonio Velez Montoya (2 libros)

Del big bang al homo sapiens

Libro Del big bang al homo sapiens

Making knowledge about evolution available to everyone, this simple and entertaining book offers answers to the most frequently asked questions. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded of the importance of understanding evolutionary processes in order to approach present day human behavior, including social conduct, as well as the difficulty of trying to decipher the nature of modern human beings without going back to their zoological origin. Divided into two sections, the first one builds the foundation for the latter, which explains the evolution of life, beginning at the physical...

Homo Sapiens

Libro Homo Sapiens

CONTENIDO: La evolución - Reproducción sexual - Cómo nos llega la muerte - Genoma y ambiente - Manos, inteligencia y vida social - Genoma y conducta - Aprendizaje - El don del lenguaje - Innatismo del lenguaje - Aparato cognitivo - La consciencia - Sesgos y otras fallas - Características a priori - Risa y humor - Acerca de la ética - Egoísmo y altruismo - Sexualidad - Identidad sexual y homosexualidad - Roles genéricos - El incesto - Agresividad - Violencia y guerras - Territorialidad - La jerarquía - Características de las jerarquías.