Download or read book Human Nature in Rural Tuscany written by G. Hanlon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melding evolutionary theory and both animal and human ethology together with close, descriptive historical research on a typical Tuscan village in the Seventeenth century, Hanlon explains the good reasons individuals had for behaving in ways that now seem strange to us.