Whisperings Within [Paperback]

David P. Barash (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 274 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (February 26, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140056998
• ISBN-13: 978-0140056990
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

David P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist (Ph.D. zoology, Univ. of Wisconsin), a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, and the author of 30 books, dealing with various aspects of evolution, animal and human behavior, and peace studies. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received numerous awards. He is most proud, however, of his very personal collaboration with Judith Eve Lipton, his three children, one grandchild, and having been named by an infamous rightwing nut as one of the "101 most dangerous professors" in the United States. His dangerousness may or may not be apparent from his writing!

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars most influential, February 28, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The whisperings within (Hardcover)

I can't believe that there is only one review of this book! Although this is not the best book on evolutionary psychology ever written, it was the first that I ever read on the subject and I have to say that it influenced me profoundly. This book has had a greater impact on the way I think, feel and view life than any other book I have read before or since. Now, I can't read a novel, listen to a love song, analyze my own behavior, or think about any human behavior without wondering "What would an evolutionary psychologist think about that?" To us humans, the study of evolutionary psychology is the most basic of all studies. It underpins all of our activities.
A more recent book on the same subject is Robert Wright's 'The Moral Animal: Why We are the Way We Are, The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology'. David Barash also has a couple of good ones. 'The Myth of Monogamy' and 'Making Sense of Sex'.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great work on social Darwinism, March 19, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The whisperings within (Hardcover)

This book was required reading for me in college about 12 years ago for a pysch class. Like few books I have read in my life, it will fundimentally alter the way you view human behavior. Barash does a brilliant job of tracing common human behaviors to evolutionary bases. This book should be required reading if you are a human

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars revolutionary book about human evolution, September 24, 2006

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Raymond Blum "JewishTeddyBear" (los angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whisperings Within (Paperback)

i agree with the other reviewers that this has to be one of the most powerfully influential books i have ever read. i have a bachelor's and master's degree in psychology, yet i never learned as much about human nature than when i read this book along with desmond morris' two greatest masterpieces, naked ape and human zoo. why this book is not more famous, i can only attribute to most people not thinking deeply enough about what makes us tick.