Evolutionary Perspectives On Death

Author : Todd K. Shackelford,Virgil Zeigler-Hill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030254667

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Evolutionary Perspectives on Death by Todd K. Shackelford,Virgil Zeigler-Hill Pdf

The latest volume in this multidisciplinary series on key topics in evolutionary studies, Evolutionary Perspectives on Death provides an evolutionary analysis of mortality and the consideration of death. Bringing together noted experts from a variety of fields, the books emanate from conferences held at Oakland University, and are dedicated to providing wide ranging and occasionally provocative views of human evolution. The volume on death covers topics from biology, anthropology, psychology, sociology and philosophy, with contributors addressing how evolution informs the process of comprehending, grieving, depicting, celebrating, and accepting death. Among the topics covered: Evolutionary perspectives on the loss of a twin Nonhuman primate responses to death Death in literature Witnessing and representing the death of pets The role of human decomposition facilities in shaping American perspectives on death This insightful volume showcases groundbreaking empirical and theoretical research addressing death and mortality from an evolutionary perspective, demonstrating the intellectual value of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding psychological processes and behavior. Chapter 6 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author : Todd Kennedy Shackelford,Virgil Zeigler-Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Death
ISBN : 3030254674

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Evolutionary Perspectives on Death by Todd Kennedy Shackelford,Virgil Zeigler-Hill Pdf

The latest volume in this multidisciplinary series on key topics in evolutionary studies, Evolutionary Perspectives on Death provides an evolutionary analysis of mortality and the consideration of death. Bringing together noted experts from a variety of fields, the books emanate from conferences held at Oakland University, and are dedicated to providing wide ranging and occasionally provocative views of human evolution. The volume on death covers topics from biology, anthropology, psychology, sociology and philosophy, with contributors addressing how evolution informs the process of comprehending, grieving, depicting, celebrating, and accepting death. Among the topics covered: Evolutionary perspectives on the loss of a twin Nonhuman primate responses to death Death in literature Witnessing and representing the death of pets The role of human decomposition facilities in shaping American perspectives on death This insightful volume showcases groundbreaking empirical and theoretical research addressing death and mortality from an evolutionary perspective, demonstrating the intellectual value of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding psychological processes and behavior. Chapter 6 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author : Philippe Huneman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031144172

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Death by Philippe Huneman Pdf

This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues. The book is divided into two sections: the first considers physiology and the second evolutionary biology. In the first part, Huneman reconstructs a conceptual genealogy of experimental physiology based on an in-depth analysis of Bichat's investigations of death processes. In the second part he explains that biologists in the late 1950s put forth a research framework that evolutionarily accounts for death in terms of either an effect of the weakness of natural selection or a by-product of natural selection for early reproduction. He illustrates how the biology of death is a central field and that studying it provides insight into the way that the epistemic structure of this knowledge has been constituted, persists until now, and may conflict with some traditional philosophical ideas.

Author : Stanley Shostak
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791480816

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The Evolution of Death by Stanley Shostak Pdf

In The Evolution of Death, the follow-up to Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy, also published by SUNY Press, Stanley Shostak argues that death, like life, can evolve. Observing that literature, philosophy, religion, genetics, physics, and gerontology still struggle to explain why we die, Shostak explores the mystery of death from a biological perspective. Death, Shostak claims, is not the end of a linear journey, static and indifferent to change. Instead, he suggests, the current efforts to live longer have profoundly affected our ecological niche, and we are evolving into a long-lived species. Pointing to the artificial means currently used to prolong life, he argues that as we become increasingly juvenilized in our adult life, death will become significantly and evolutionarily delayed. As bodies evolve, the embryos of succeeding generations may be accumulating the stem cells that preserve and restore, providing the resources necessary to live longer and longer. If trends like this continue, Shostak contends, future human beings may join the ranks of other animals with indefinite life spans.

Author : James S. Chisholm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521597080

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Death, Hope and Sex by James S. Chisholm Pdf

Fascinating and controversial examination of how evolutionary theory sheds light on human nature using reproductive issues as a focus.

Author : Colin Renfrew,Michael J. Boyd,Iain Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107082731

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Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World by Colin Renfrew,Michael J. Boyd,Iain Morley Pdf

This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.

Author : Kevin N. Laland,Gillian R. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199586967

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Sense and Nonsense by Kevin N. Laland,Gillian R. Brown Pdf

This book asks whether evolution can help us to understand human behaviour and explores diverse evolutionary methods and arguments. It provides a short, readable introduction to the science behind the works of Dawkins, Dennett, Wilson and Pinker. It is widely used in undergraduate courses around the world.

Author : Adam Świeżyński
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Death
ISBN : 8370726364

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The Philosophy of Human Death by Adam Świeżyński Pdf

Author : Sybil L. Hart,David F. Bjorklund
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030760007

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Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy by Sybil L. Hart,David F. Bjorklund Pdf

This unique volume is one of the first of its kind to examine infancy through an evolutionary lens, identifying infancy as a discrete stage during which particular types of adaptations arose as a consequence of certain environmental pressures. Infancy is a crucial time period in psychological development, and evolutionary psychologists are increasingly recognizing that natural selection has operated on all stages of development, not just adulthood. The volume addresses this crucial change in perspective by highlighting research across diverse disciplines including developmental psychology, evolutionary developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, nutrition, and primatology. Chapters are grouped into four sections: Theoretical Underpinnings Brain and Cognitive Development Social/Emotional Development Life and Death Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy sheds new light on our understanding of the human brain and the environments responsible for shaping the brain during early stages of development. This book will be of interest to evolutionary psychologists and developmental psychologists, biologists, and anthropologists, as well as scholars more broadly interested in infancy.

Author : Joseph Carroll,Mathias Clasen,Emelie Jonsson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030461904

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Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture by Joseph Carroll,Mathias Clasen,Emelie Jonsson Pdf

This pioneering volume offers an expansive introduction to the relatively new field of evolutionary studies in imaginative culture. Contributors from psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and the humanities probe the evolved human imagination and its artefacts. The book forcefully demonstrates that imagination is part of human nature. Contributors explore imaginative culture in seven main areas: Imagination: Evolution, Mechanisms and Functions Myth and Religion Aesthetic Theory Music Visual and Plastic Arts Video Games and Films Oral Narratives and Literature Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture widens the scope of evolutionary cultural theory to include much of what “culture” means in common usage. The contributors aim to convince scholars in both the humanities and the evolutionary human sciences that biology and imaginative culture are intimately intertwined. The contributors illuminate this broad theoretical argument with comprehensive insights into religion, ideology, personal identity, and many particular works of art, music, literature, film, and digital media. The chapters “Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts” and “The Role of Aesthetic Style in Alleviating Anxiety About the Future” are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Author : Robert G. Burgess,Kevin MacDonald
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0761927905

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Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development by Robert G. Burgess,Kevin MacDonald Pdf

Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development's Comprehensive coverage on current thinking about the impact of evolutionary theory on human development provides students with the most thorough grounding available in this area. Contributions by leading scholars and researchers expose students first-hand to the thinking of widely recognized experts and the exciting contributions they have been making to this field. To ensure accessibility in classroom settings, chapters have been written according to uniform guidelines for length and format, with cross-references between chapters and a style appropriate to upper-division undergraduate and beginning graduate psychology students. To further facilitate the use of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development as supplemental classroom reading, the volume editors provide an introductory overview chapter and a concluding chapter that sums up the book.

Author : C A Soper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319773001

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The Evolution of Suicide by C A Soper Pdf

“[A] fascinating read... Contrary to what the title might suggest, this is an upbeat exploration of suicide with a positive message.” --Jeanine Connor, Therapy Today, December, 2018 This thought-provoking volume offers a distinctly human evolutionary analysis of a distinctly human phenomenon: suicide. Its ‘pain and brain’ model posits animal adaptations as the motivator for suicidal escape, and specific human cognitive adaptations as supplying the means , while also providing a plausible explanation for why only a relatively small number of humans actually take their own lives. The author hypothesizes two types of anti-suicide responses, active and reactive mechanisms prompted by the brain as suicide deterrents. Proposed as well is the intriguing prospect that mental disorders such as depression and addiction, long associated with suicidality, may serve as survival measures. Among the topics covered: · Suicide as an evolutionary puzzle. · The protection against suicide afforded to animals and young children. · Suicide as a by-product of pain and human cognition. · Why psychodynamic defenses regulate the experiencing of painful events. · Links between suicidality and positive psychology. · The anti-suicide role of spiritual and religious belief. In raising and considering key questions regarding this most controversial act, The Evolution of Suicide will appeal to researchers across a range of behavioral science disciplines. At the same time, the book’s implications for clinical intervention and prevention will make it useful among mental health professionals and those involved with mental health policy.

Author : Caleb E. Finch,Committee on Population
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : NAP:13236

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Between Zeus and the Salmon by Caleb E. Finch,Committee on Population Pdf

Demographers and public health specialists have been surprised by the rapid increases in life expectancy, especially at the oldest ages, that have occurred since the early 1960s. Some scientists are calling into question the idea of a fixed upper limit for the human life span. There is new evidence about the genetic bases for both humans and other species. There are also new theories and models of the role of mutations accumulating over the life span and the possible evolutionary advantages of survival after the reproductive years. This volume deals with such diverse topics as the role of the elderly in other species and among human societies past and present, the contribution of evolutionary theory to our understanding of human longevity and intergenerational transfers, mathematical models for survival, and the potential for collecting genetic material in household surveys. It will be particularly valuable for promoting communication between the social and life sciences.

Author : James S. Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Genetic psychology
ISBN : 6610420181

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Death, Hope, and Sex by James S. Chisholm Pdf

By showing how and why human nature is what it is, evolutionary theory can help us see better what we need to do to improve the human condition. Following evolutionary theory to its logical conclusion, Death, Hope and Sex uses life history theory and attachment theory to construct a model of human nature in which critical features are understood in terms of the development of alternative reproductive strategies contingent on environmental risk and uncertainty. James Chisholm examines the implications of this model for perspectives on concerns associated with human reproduction, including teen pregnancy, and young male violence. He thus develops new approaches for thorny issues such as the nature-nurture and mind-body dichotomies. Bridging the gap between the social and biological sciences, this far-reaching volume will be a source of inspiration, debate and discussion for all those interested in the evolution of human nature and the potential for an evolutionary humanism.

Author : Paul M. Bingham,Joanne Souza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 1439254125

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Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe by Paul M. Bingham,Joanne Souza Pdf

A comprehensive often spellbinding exploration of humans: How we came to be unique among all the Earth's animal species and how this uniqueness has shaped our history, behavior, and contemporary lives