For those elements, patterns, traits, and institutions that are common to all human cultures worldwide, see Cultural universals.
Human Universals is a book by Donald Brown, an American professor of anthropology (emeritus) who worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It was published by McGraw Hill in 1991. Brown says human universals, "comprise those features of culture, society, language, behavior, and psyche for which there are no known exception."
According to Brown, there are many universals common to all human societies.[1][2]
Steven Pinker lists all Brown's universals in the appendix of his book The Blank Slate.[3] The list includes several hundred universals, and notes Brown's later article on human universals in The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
The list is seen by Brown (and Pinker) to be evidence of mental adaptations to communal life in our species' evolutionary history.[3]p53 The issues raised by Brown's list are essentially darwinian. They occur in Darwin's Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), and in Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863). The list gives little emphasis to the issues of aggression, physical conflict and warfare, which have an extensive literature in ethology.[4] Brown's list does have conflict and its mediation as items. He also makes note of the fact that human males are more prone to violence and aggression than females.
human, universals, those, elements, patterns, traits, institutions, that, common, human, cultures, worldwide, cultural, universals, book, donald, brown, american, professor, anthropology, emeritus, worked, university, california, santa, barbara, published, mcg. For those elements patterns traits and institutions that are common to all human cultures worldwide see Cultural universals Human Universals is a book by Donald Brown an American professor of anthropology emeritus who worked at the University of California Santa Barbara It was published by McGraw Hill in 1991 Brown says human universals comprise those features of culture society language behavior and psyche for which there are no known exception Human UniversalsCover of the first editionAuthorDonald BrownCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishSubjectCultural anthropologyPublisherMcGraw HillPublication date1991Media typePrint Hardcover and Paperback Pages220ISBN0 87722 841 8OCLC22860694 According to Brown there are many universals common to all human societies 1 2 Steven Pinker lists all Brown s universals in the appendix of his book The Blank Slate 3 The list includes several hundred universals and notes Brown s later article on human universals in The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive SciencesThe list is seen by Brown and Pinker to be evidence of mental adaptations to communal life in our species evolutionary history 3 p53 The issues raised by Brown s list are essentially darwinian They occur in Darwin s Descent of Man 1871 and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals 1872 and in Huxley s Evidence as to Man s Place in Nature 1863 The list gives little emphasis to the issues of aggression physical conflict and warfare which have an extensive literature in ethology 4 Brown s list does have conflict and its mediation as items He also makes note of the fact that human males are more prone to violence and aggression than females Notes edit Brown Donald E 1991 Human Universals New York City McGraw Hill ISBN 0 87722 841 8 As quoted by Pinker a b Pinker Steven 2002 The Blank Slate the modern denial of human nature New York Viking Appendix Donald E Brown s list of human universals Lorenz Konrad 1966 On Aggression London Methuen References editGeorge P Murdock in Linton The Science of Man in the World Crisis 1945 Murdock s concepts were updated by Donald E Brown Human Universals 1991 External links editHuman Universals New York McGraw Hill 1991 List of Universals from the book Chapter by Brown Introduction to Human Universals and Methods of research by Donald E Brown Humans share same characteristics Paper University of British Columbia nbsp This article about an anthropology related book is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article about cultural anthropology is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Human Universals amp oldid 1020695955, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
