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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2011-04-07
Upplaga
2
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Medarbetare
Brown, Gillian
Illustrationer
illustrations
Dimensioner
232 x 168 x 22 mm
Vikt
431 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780199586967

Sense and Nonsense

Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour

av Kevin N Laland
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Häftad,  Engelska, 2011-04-07
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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.
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Ugur Parlar, Science & Education this is an important book that with much consideration outlines evolutionary schools of thought without compromising thoughtful critique. Laland and Brown do not only review their own research, but also dispel some of the persisting misunderstandings about evolutionary theory with broad awareness.

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<br>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. <p>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.<br>

Innehållsförteckning

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

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