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Author : John Maynard Smith
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033112496
Author : John Maynard Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1982-10-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521288843
This 1982 book is an account of an alternative way of thinking about evolution and the theory of games.
Author : John Maynard Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468478624
Now in paperback, Did Darwin Get It Right discusses some of the hottest issues in biology today. Its author, the eminently quotable John Maynard Smith, discusses such fascinating conundrums as how life began, whether the brain works like a computer, why most animals and plants reproduce sexually, and how social behavior evolved out of the context of natural selection--a process which would seem to favor selfishness. A humorous and insightful writer, John Maynard Smith has the special ability to convey the excitement of science, its complexity and fascination, without baffling or boring his readers. In these 28 brief and accessible essays, Maynard ranges widely over such issues as science and the media, the birth of sociobiology, the evolution of animal intelligence and the limitations of evolutionary theory. For his work on the evolution of sex, Smith won the Darwin medal from the Royal Society, and he has pioneered the application of game theory to animal behavior.
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465013074
To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female can't be fertilized (for example, because she is already pregnant, post-menopausal, or between fertile cycles). A human female doesn't know her precise time of fertility and certainly doesn't advertise it to human males by the striking color changes, smells, and sounds used by other female mammals.Why do we differ so radically in these and other important aspects of our sexuality from our closest ancestor, the apes? Why does the human female, virtually alone among mammals go through menopause? Why does the human male stand out as one of the few mammals to stay (often or usually) with the female he impregnates, to help raise the children that he sired? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large?There is no one better qualified than Jared Diamond—renowned expert in the fields of physiology and evolutionary biology and award-winning author—to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and a wealth of fascinating examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status.
Author : John Gribbin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Human reproduction
ISBN : 0760745439
Author : Karl Sigmund
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486824802
Accessible, informative, and enjoyable treatment discusses the application of the ideas and methods of game theory and mathematical modeling to such areas as evolution, sex, animal behavior, and aggression. "Excellent." — Nature
Author : Peter B. Gray,Justin R. Garcia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674074392
Few things come more naturally to us than sex—or so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would appear odd indeed. He or she might wonder why we bother with inconveniences like clothes, why we prefer to make love on a bed, and why we fuss so needlessly over privacy. Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior invites us into the thought-experiment of imagining human sex from the vantage point of our primate cousins, in order to underscore the role of evolution in shaping all that happens, biologically and behaviorally, when romantic passions are aroused. Peter Gray and Justin Garcia provide an interdisciplinary synthesis that draws on the latest discoveries in evolutionary theory, genetics, neuroscience, comparative primate research, and cross-cultural sexuality studies. They are our guides through an exploration of the patterns and variations that exist in human sexuality, in chapters covering topics ranging from the evolution of sex differences and reproductive physiology to the origins of sexual play, monogamous unions, and the facts and fictions surrounding orgasm. Intended for generally curious readers of all stripes, this up-to-date, one-volume survey of the evolutionary science of human sexual behavior explains why sexuality has remained a core fascination of human beings throughout time and across cultures.
Author : Marco Antonio Correa Varella,Jaroslava Varella Valentova,Catherine Salmon,Barnaby James Wyld Dixson,Marina Butovskaya,Anabela Pinto Pinto,Boguslaw Pawlowski,Carol Cronin Weisfeld
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832527542
Author : Johannes Breuer,Daniel Pietschmann,Benny Liebold,Benjamin P. Lange
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351663564
Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Games: Digital Hunter-Gatherers is the first edited volume that systematically applies evolutionary psychology to the study of the use and effects of digital games. The book is divided into four parts: Theories and Methods Emotion and Morality Social Interaction Learning and Motivation These topics reflect the main areas of digital games research as well as some of the basic categories of psychological research. The book is meant as a resource for researchers and graduate students in psychology, anthropology, media studies and communication as well as video game designers who are interested in learning more about the evolutionary roots of player behaviors and experiences.
Author : Martin Daly,Margo Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015039909661
This text provides an elementary level discussion of recent theory relating to the evolutionary and adaptive aspects of reproductive behaviour. The relation between ultimate and proximate levels of explanation is the major theme of the book. Two new chapters in this edition incorporate findings from recent research and there is also new material on humans, physiology, and development. Sex and reproductive behaviour are examined from an evolutionary comparative perspective and numerous empirical studies and examples are cited.
Author : Cailin O'Connor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Equality
ISBN : 9780198789970
In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O'Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender, race, and religion, to address this question. She uses the formal frameworks of game theory and evolutionary game theory to explore the cultural evolution of the conventions which piggyback on these seemingly irrelevant social categories. These frameworks elucidate a variety of topics from the innateness of gender differences, to collaboration in academia, to household bargaining, to minority disadvantage, to homophily. They help to show how inequity can emerge from simple processes of cultural change in groups with gender and racial categories, and under a wide array of situations. The process of learning conventions of coordination and resource division is such that some groups will tend to get more and others less. O'Connor offers solutions to such problems of coordination and resource division and also shows why we need to think of inequity as part of an ever evolving process. Surprisingly minimal conditions are needed to robustly produce phenomena related to inequity and, once inequity emerges in these models, it takes very little for it to persist indefinitely. Thus, those concerned with social justice must remain vigilant against the dynamic forces that push towards inequity.
Author : Leonard Shlain
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101200391
As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain’s provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from. Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female’s pelvis and the increasing size of infants’ heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the human female to this environmental stress by reconfiguring her hormonal cycles, entraining them with the periodicity of the moon. The results, however, did much more than ensure our existence; they imbued women with the concept of time, and gave them control over sex—a power that males sought to reclaim. And the possibility of achieving immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures that went on to dominate so much of human history. From the nature of courtship to the evolution of language, Shlain’s brilliant and wide-ranging exploration stimulates new thinking about very old matters.
Author : Donald Symons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979-08-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199878475
Anthropology, Sexual Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies
Author : Christopher Badcock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780745665627
According to evolutionary biologists, we are the minders of our genes. But, as Christopher Badcock points out in this book, it is only recently that evolutionists have realized that minders need minds, and that evolution needs psychology to fill the yawning gap between genes and behaviour. Evolutionary Psychology assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, and concentrates on the fundamental issues raised by the application of modern Darwinism to psychology. Basic concepts of evolution are explained carefully, so that the reader has a sound grasp of them before their often controversial application to psychology is discussed. The approach is a critical one, and the author does not hide the many difficulties that evolutionary psychology raises. Examples include the strange neglect of Darwin's own writings on psychology, and the fact that no existing theory has succeeded in explaining why the human brain evolved in the first place. The book is the first to give a non-technical account of remarkable new findings about the roles that conflicting genes play in building different parts of the brain. It is also the first to consider the consequences of this for controversies like those over nature/nurture, IQ, brain lateralization and consciousness. Evolutionary Psychology is based on many years experience of teaching evolution and psychology to social science students, and is intended for all who wish to get to grips with the basic issues of one of the most exciting and rapidly growing areas of modern science.
Author : Neil Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351937993
Evolutionary approaches to the study of human beings have been able to explain the origin and maintenance of many of the features of our bodies. Many thinkers believe that an evolutionary approach will be equally fruitful when it comes to explaining the features of our minds. Since our behaviour is driven by our minds, our cognitive dispositions and processes are likely to have been a target of selection and adaptation. This volume collects recent prominent explorations of this theme, as well as the voices of dissenters who argue that our minds are far more significantly the product of culture than of evolution.
