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Sense and Nonsense
Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour
Taschenbuch von Gillian Brown (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Kevin N. Laland is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews. His research encompasses a range of topics related to animal behaviour and evolution, particularly social learning, gene-culture coevolution, and niche construction. He has published 6 books and over 160 articles on these topics and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also a former President of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association.

Gillian R. Brown is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on sex differences in the behaviour of mammals, which she studies from neuroendocrine, developmental and evolutionary perspectives. She has published over 40 articles on sex differences, covering topics such as adaptive birth sex ratios, sex differences in infant and adolescent behaviour, parental investment and the evolution of mating strategies. She has held a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Sense and nonsense

  • 2: A history of evolution and human behaviour

  • 3: Human sociobiology

  • 4: Human behavioural ecology

  • 5: Evolutionary psychology

  • 6: Cultural evolution

  • 7: Gene-culture coevolution

  • 8: Comparing and integrating approaches

  • Further Reading

  • References

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199586967
ISBN-10: 0199586969
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brown, Gillian
Laland, Kevin N.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 231 x 154 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Gillian Brown (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2011
Gewicht: 0,433 kg
Artikel-ID: 107013376
Über den Autor
Kevin N. Laland is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews. His research encompasses a range of topics related to animal behaviour and evolution, particularly social learning, gene-culture coevolution, and niche construction. He has published 6 books and over 160 articles on these topics and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also a former President of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association.

Gillian R. Brown is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on sex differences in the behaviour of mammals, which she studies from neuroendocrine, developmental and evolutionary perspectives. She has published over 40 articles on sex differences, covering topics such as adaptive birth sex ratios, sex differences in infant and adolescent behaviour, parental investment and the evolution of mating strategies. She has held a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Sense and nonsense

  • 2: A history of evolution and human behaviour

  • 3: Human sociobiology

  • 4: Human behavioural ecology

  • 5: Evolutionary psychology

  • 6: Cultural evolution

  • 7: Gene-culture coevolution

  • 8: Comparing and integrating approaches

  • Further Reading

  • References

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199586967
ISBN-10: 0199586969
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brown, Gillian
Laland, Kevin N.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 231 x 154 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Gillian Brown (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2011
Gewicht: 0,433 kg
Artikel-ID: 107013376
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