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Author : Michael Taborsky,Michael A. Cant,Jan Komdeur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107011182
First book to outline the fundamental principles of social evolution underlying the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours.
Author : Joan S. Lockard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035857536
Author : Frans B. M. de Waal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674033023
How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the world's top primate experts read these clues and compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as a species. It has been nearly fifteen years since a single volume addressed the issue of human evolution from a primate perspective, and in that time we have witnessed explosive growth in research on the subject. Tree of Origin gives us the latest news about bonobos, the make love not war apes who behave so dramatically unlike chimpanzees. We learn about the tool traditions and social customs that set each ape community apart. We see how DNA analysis is revolutionizing our understanding of paternity, intergroup migration, and reproductive success. And we confront intriguing discoveries about primate hunting behavior, politics, cognition, diet, and the evolution of language and intelligence that challenge claims of human uniqueness in new and subtle ways. Tree of Origin provides the clearest glimpse yet of the apelike ancestor who left the forest and began the long journey toward modern humanity.
Author : Heinz-Jurgen Niedenzu,Tamas Meleghy,Peter Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317255482
Social scientists have long declared their autonomy from the natural sciences, and in doing so have tended to neglect important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories have suggested a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life. The New Evolutionary Social Science challenges this view by building on Stephen K. Sanderson's 'Darwinian conflict theory' which sets out to synthesise sociological theories with key findings from biology into an overarching scientific paradigm. Configuring and expanding this groundbreaking theory, the contributors to this volume are well-known European and American experts in evolutionary science. The New Evolutionary Social Science develops a new basis for understanding social change and the world's future through a better integration of the natural and social sciences.
Author : Tamás Székely,Allen J. Moore,Jan Komdeur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521883177
A comprehensive analysis of the genetic, ecological and phylogenetic aspects of social behaviour, by experts in the field.
Author : Napoleon A. Chagnon,William Irons
Publisher : Brooks/Cole
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000347735
Author : Agustin Fuentes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Behavior evolution
ISBN : 0195333594
"Author Agustin Fuentes incorporates recent innovations in evolutionary theory with emerging perspectives from genomic approaches, the current fossil record, and ethnographic studies. He examines basic assumptions about why humans behave as they do, the facts of human evolution, patterns of evolutionary change in a global environmental-temporal context, and the interconnected roles of cooperation and conflict in human history. The net result is a text that moves toward a more holistic understanding of the patterns of human evolution and a more integrated perspective on the evolution of human behavior."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lee Cronk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429965463
Our understanding of the evolution of human behavior has grown enormously over the past few decades, and an increasing number of behavioral and social scientists are making use of evolutionary theory in their work to shed light on issues ranging from marriage and parenting to the study of mental illness. The success of this research program is thre
Author : Heinz-J©ơrgen Iedenzu,Tam©Łs Meleghy,Peter Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Human evolution
ISBN : 1315633256
Author : Ron Vannelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781316404744
How do desires and fears motivate human sociability? What effect do these motivators have on reproductive, social and political behaviour? And, crucially, how might we understand them separate from preconceived notions of design or higher morality? Taking these questions as a focus, this book examines human evolution with the emphasis on sexual selection and the evolution of a number of human psychological processes. Exploring evolutionary, sexual and maturational processes, along with primate, fossil and geological evidence, Vannelli argues that human nature can be conceptualised as species-typical desires and fears, derived from sexual selection during human evolution, and that these are major motivators of behaviour. Presenting additional evidence from the anthropology of band societies, along with material from group behaviour, Vannelli highlights the importance of pair-bonding, friendship, alliance behaviour, vengeance seeking and interpersonal politics in social behaviour, providing a unique interdisciplinary framework for understanding human nature and the evolution of human sociability.
Author : Kyle Summers,Bernard Crespi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199339631
Richard D. Alexander is an accomplished entomologist who turned his attention to solving some of the most perplexing problems associated with the evolution of human social systems. Using impeccable Darwinian logic and elaborating, extending and adding to the classic theoretical contributions of pioneers of behavioral and evolutionary ecology like George Williams, William Hamilton and Robert Trivers, Alexander developed the most detailed and comprehensive vision of human social evolution of his era. His ideas and hypotheses have inspired countless biologists, anthropologists, psychologists and other social scientists to explore the evolution of human social behavior in ever greater detail, and many of his seminal ideas have stood the test of time and come to be pillars of our understanding of human social evolution. This volume presents classic papers or chapters by Dr. Alexander, each focused on an important theme from his work. Introductions by Dr. Alexander's former students and colleagues highlight the importance of his work to the field, describe more recent work on the topic, and discuss current issues of contention and interest.
Author : Patrick Bateson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783742516
The role of parents in shaping the characters of their children, the causes of violence and crime, and the roots of personal unhappiness are central to humanity. Like so many fundamental questions about human existence, these issues all relate to behavioural development. In this lucid and accessible book, eminent biologist Professor Sir Patrick Bateson suggests that the nature/nurture dichotomy we often use to think about questions of development in both humans and animals is misleading. Instead, he argues that we should pay attention to whole systems, rather than to simple causes, when trying to understand the complexity of development. In his wide-ranging approach Bateson discusses why so much behaviour appears to be well-designed. He explores issues such as ‘imprinting’ and its importance to the attachment of offspring to their parents; the mutual benefits that characterise communication between parent and offspring; the importance of play in learning how to choose and control the optimal conditions in which to thrive; and the vital function of adaptability in the interplay between development and evolution. Bateson disputes the idea that a simple link can be found between genetics and behaviour. What an individual human or animal does in its life depends on the reciprocal nature of its relationships with the world about it. This knowledge also points to ways in which an animal’s own behaviour can provide the variation that influences the subsequent course of evolution. This has relevance not only for our scientific approaches to the systems of development and evolution, but also on how humans change institutional rules that have become dysfunctional, or design public health measures when mismatches occur between themselves and their environments. It affects how we think about ourselves and our own capacity for change.
Author : Robin Dunbar
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780571265183
Did mankind evolve unusually large brains simply in order to gossip? Primates differ from other animals by the intensity of their social relationships, by the amount of time they spend grooming one another. Not just a matter of hygiene, grooming is all about cementing bonds, making friends and influencing your fellow ape. Early humans, in their characteristic large groups of 150 or so, would have had to spend almost half their time in mutual grooming. Instead, Professor Robin Dunbar argues, they evolved a more efficient mechanism: language. It seems there is nothing idle about idle chatter. Having a good gossip ensures that a dynamic group - of hunter-gatherers, soldiers, workmates - remains cohesive.Men and women 'gossip' equally, but men tend to talk about themselves, while women talk more about other people, working to strengthen the female-female relationships that underpin both human and primate societies. Until now, most anthropologists have assumed that language developed in male-male relationships, during activities such as hunting. Dunbar's intriguing research suggests that, to the contrary, language evolved among women.
Author : N. Tinbergen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317911548
Originally published in 1953, this is a classic study in animal behaviour, drawing on the author’s own extraordinary studies of insects, fish, and birds, as well as on the literature. The concept ‘community’ is taken in its widest sense to include all types of association of individuals, not only flocks and herds, but also the family, the pair, and even two animals engaged in combat. The author received the Nobel Prize for his work in this field in 1973.
Author : Heinz-Jürgen Niedenzu,Tamás Meleghy,Peter Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131731403
High profile academics explore the connections between the social and natural sciences. The essays outline a groundbreaking new scientific paradigm.
