Behind The Mirror

Description for BEHIND THE MIRROS:  A SEARCH FOR A NATURAL HISTORY OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE by Konrad Lorenz:

Translated by Ronald Taylor

In his first major work since On Aggression, Nobel laureate Konrad Lorenz investigates culture as a living system.  From Amoebae to humans, he traces the physiological mechanisms that direct behavior and thought processes, their evolution, functions, and malfunctions.  The emphasis of his inquiry is on the development of modern man and his alarming propensities for destruction, of his own kind as well as of his environment.

Professor Lorenz’s sometimes audacious argument is illuminated by vivid examples drawn from a lifetime of observation and presented with the verve, humor, and originality for which he is fames.  He addresses himself not only to scientists but to ever person with intellectual curiosity and concern for the ultimate fate of mankind.