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The Darwinian heritage and sociobiology

Author: J van der Dennen; David Smillie; Daniel R Wilson
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999.
Series: Human evolution, behavior, and intelligence.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Named Person: Charles Darwin
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: J van der Dennen; David Smillie; Daniel R Wilson
ISBN: 0275964361 9780275964368
OCLC Number: 40668167
Description: xiii, 353 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Group selection and the selfish gene : the units-of-selection problem revisited / Michael J.C. Waller --
The implications of Darwin's variational paradigm / David Smillie --
Cooperative genes : synergy and the bioeconomics of evolution / Peter A. Corning --
The sociobiology of human cooperation : the interplay of ultimate and proximate causes / Peter Meyer --
Evolution and culture : the missing link / Robin Allott --
Evolution : implications for epistemology and cultural variation / Dennis Werner --
Culture and the Darwinian heritage : implications for literary research in the university / John Constable --
Marx, Darwin, and human nature / Lucio Ferreira Alves --
Culture and the evolution of the human mating system / Pouwel Slurink --
Human evolution and the origin of war : a Darwinian heritage / Johan M.G. van der Dennen --
Ethnic conflicts and ethnic nepotism / Tatu Vanhanen --
Mating patterns and their role in the formation and structure of the Abbad tribe in Jordan / A.J. Nabulsi --
Darwin's really dangerous idea - the primacy of variation / J. Philippe Rushton --
With whom was Darwin supposed to fall in love? / Ada Lampert --
Grandparental caregiving and intergenerational relations reflect reproductive strategies / Harald A. Euler and Barbara Weitzel --
Marital power dynamics : a Darwinian perspective / Norma J. Schell and Carol C. Weisfeld --
Sexual dimorphism and the evolution of gender stereotypes in man : a sociobiological perspective / M.L. Butovskaya and A.G. Kozintsev --
Darwin and the eighteenth-century British moral tradition / Michael Bradie --
Evolutionary psychology : the appropriate disciplinary link between evolutionary theory and the social sciences / Charles Elworthy --
Implications of sexual selection for variation in human personality and behavior / John S. Price --
Serotonin, dopamine, and the evolution of sociophysiological neurotransmission / Daniel R. Wilson, Sean Stanton and Sandra Wilson --
Darwinian analysis of the emotion of pride/shame / Glenn Weisfeld.
Series Title: Human evolution, behavior, and intelligence.
Responsibility: edited by Johan M.G. van der Dennen, David Smillie, and Daniel R. Wilson.

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