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The ArT And Science of Personality Development

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Your personality is a unique variation on the general design of human nature. Human nature itself—what we human beings have in common with each other by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings—is a product of our species’ evolution. Whereas personality develops across the individual life course, from birth through old age, human nature has “developed” over millions of years of evolutionary history. And it continues to develop, of course, for evolution never goes away. For each of us, our own personality development marks an artful experiment in variation, a unique twist on the evolved pattern, as if nature were asking the cosmos: What do you think will happen if we try this one out? Each never-to-be-repeated experiment becomes manifest in the birth of a particular infant. But every human beginning looks back to the beginning of the human species, for every variation on the evolved design for human nature reaffirms the design itself. To appreciate the variation, then, we must understand the evolved (and evolving) design. And to understand the design, we must imagine how the design itself came to be, going back to the beginning.
In the beginning, natural selection created human beings to be brainy, bipedal creatures who live together in social groups.
The scientific understanding of human nature’s beginning bears little resemblance to the ancient creation stories that you probably know, those mythic accounts of beginnings enshrined in the world’s great religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But there is one remarkable parallel. In all of these accounts, Homo sapiens is portrayed as relentlessly social and really, really smart.

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The ArT And Science of Personality Development

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New York : THE GUILFORD PRESS., 2015

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1-386

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English

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978-1-4625-1995-8

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1st Edtion

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Information Technology

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