Darwin’s People
How Naturalists Explain Our Behavior
Re-centering the science of behavior on the people it’s meant to explain.
From origins to expertise — discover the naturalistic approach that changes everything.
This book is about weaving together the strong explanatory pieces we have about people’s behavior, and the punches that such a coherent explanation can deliver to the prevailing explanations.
Team Naturalism has been quietly reshaping our understanding of human performance — this book brings their work into view.
Reviews
A tour de force... This is not going to be a popular book. Quite the reverse. But Brian is not simply looking to make waves or be a contrarian. He is deadly serious, and is on a mission.
Gary Klein
Chief Scientist, ShadowBox LLC
The frame of naturalism provides a broad unifying theme, and this book puts it where it belongs as an overarching paradigm that supersedes the narrow view of bias and the AI Gold Rushers. The approach helps counter all the attempts over many decades to tout the mechanization of ‘cognition' as an all encompassing accomplishment that finally forces behavior to fit the rationalist frame — or we once put it, their fever dream.
David Woods
Faculty Emeritus, The Ohio State University
I am reminded of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It moves between a life story and matters philosophical.
Robert Hoffman
Emeritus Scientist, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition