Human nature : fact and fiction / edited by Robin Headlam Wells and Johnjoe McFadden.

London : Continuum, [2006], ©2006.

xiv, 200 pages ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is human nature written in our genes or in our books? -- Can science and literature collaborate to define human nature? -- What has biology got to do with imagination? -- Do we need a theory of human nature to tell us how to act?