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| ISBN: | 9780199930203
0199930201
9780199930197
0199930198
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| Notes: | Includes index (203 pages).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The human reaction to insects is neither purely biological nor simply cultural. And no one reacts to insects with indifference. Insects frighten, disgust and fascinate us. Jeff Lockwood explores this phenomenon through evolutionary science, human history, and contemporary psychology, as well as a debilitating bout with entomophobia in his work as an entomologist. Exploring the nature of anxiety and phobia, Lockwood explores the lively debate about how much of our fear of insects can be attributed to ancestral predisposition for our own survival and how much is learned through individual experi.
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| Other form: | Print version: Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan, 1960- Infested mind 9780199930197
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