Sense and Nonsense : Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour
ISBN: 9780199586967 | 0199586969
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/4/2011
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Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this exercise is at the centre of a heated controversy that has raged for over a century. Many evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and psychologists are optimistic that evolutionary principles can be applied to human behaviour, and have offered evolutionary explanations for a wide range of human characteristics, such as homicide, religion and sex differenc... MORE
| Sense and nonsense | p. 1 |
| A history of evolution and human behaviour | p. 19 |
| Human sociobiology | p. 49 |
| Human behavioural ecology | p. 75 |
| Evolutionary psychology | p. 105 |
| Cultural evolution | p. 139 |
| Gene-culture co-evolution | p. 165 |
| Comparing and integrating approaches | p. 195 |
| Further reading | p. 223 |
| References | p. 2... MORE |
| Points for discussion | p. 261 |
| Index | p. 265 |
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