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A Species in Denial
Author: Jeremy Griffith

The revolutionary Australian bestseller: A Species In Denialis Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith?s definitive treatise on the human condition after 30 years writing on the subject. Launched at the Australian Museum in Sydney in June 2003 it has become a bestseller in Australia and New Zealand. Its distributors describe it as one... more » of those rare books, like dictionaries, that continue to sell. In August 2004 for example it was number 9 in the AC Nielson list of top selling science books in Australia.With a Foreword by Charles Birch, Emeritus Professor of Biology and Templeton Prize Winner, A Species In Denial is receiving first rate reviews: ?A Species In Denial is a superb book, it brings out the truth of a new and wider frontier for humankind, a forward view of a world of humans no longer in naked competition amongst ourselves and with all others.? John Morton, Emeritus Professor of Zoology, Auckland University

?A breakthrough in understanding the human condition.? Dr John H Champness, Australian psychologist and educatorOVERVIEW

Why are we the way we are? Can science explain our contradictory nature?

Charles Darwin?s The Origin of Species connected humans with nature, but since then biology has been stalled, unable to address the dilemma of the human condition?our capacity for good and evil. If the universally accepted moral ideal is to be cooperative, loving and selfless, why are we humans so competitive, aggressive and selfish? Ignorance about ourselves, about why we behave the way we do, has been an immense affliction. In fact, without being able to understand and to reconcile our contradictory behaviour, we have had little choice but to block out the whole depressing subject and live in a state of denial.

In A Species In Denial biologist Jeremy Griffith argues that only by understanding why we have become less than ideally behaved can we at last safely face the truth about our condition and learn to live in full harmony with ourselves and with others. The ?truth sets us free?, but it had to be the whole truth that explains rather than criticises us.

Griffith suggests that in fact there is a biological explanation for why humans are angry, egocentric and alienated. Human ?sin? or ?upset? as he terms it, has been a necessary and unavoidable stage in our upward evolutionary development. Life isn?t driven by a competitive model of ?survival of the fittest?, but rather by a drive towards greater cooperativeness and integration. With the accumulated knowledge of science we can finally understand how, despite appearances, we have been a part of this process, and it is this liberating insight which finally brings about the maturity of the human race.?To date human intelligence has largely been concerned with the art of denial, not with truth?most people are deaf to the truth.? Jeremy Griffith

ISBN-13: 9781741290011
ISBN-10: 1741290015
Pages: 528
Edition: 2nd
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Publisher: FHA Publishing & Communications
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