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Human By Nature Between Biology and the Social Sciences
510 Pages
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Psychology Press
510 Pages
by
Psychology Press
510 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Representing a wide range of disciplines -- biology, sociology, anthropology, economics, human ethology, psychology, primatology, history, and philosophy of science -- the contributors to this book recently spent a complete academic year at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) discussing a plethora of new insights in reference to human cultural evolution. These scholars acted as a... Read more
Contents: Preface. Human by Nature -- Between Biology and the Social Sciences: General Introduction. Part I: Contexts. A.M. Maryanski, J.H. Turner, M. Borgerhoff Mulder, L. Cosmides, B. Giesen, G. Hodgson, S.J. Shennan, J. Tooby, B.M. Velichkovsky, Looking Back: Historical and Theoretical Context of Present Practice. P. Weingart, U. Segerstråle, S. Maasen, Shifting Boundaries Between the Biological and the Social: The Social and Political Contexts. S.D. Mitchell, L. Daston, G. Gigerenzer, N. Sesardic, P.B. Sloep, The Why's and How's of Interdisciplinarity. Part II: Homologies. H. Kummer, L. Daston, G. Gigerenzer, J. Silk, The Social Intelligence Hypothesis. U. Segerstråle, P. Molnár, A.M. Maryanski, B.M. Velichkovsky, The Social and Biological Foundations of Human Communication. J.H. Turner, A.M. Maryanski, P. Meyer, L. Cosmides, J. Tooby, N. Thornhill, Evolutionary Theory and Human Social Institutions: Psychological Foundations. M. Borgerhoff Mulder, N. Thornhill, E. Voland, P.J. Richerson, The Place of Behavioral Ecological Anthropology in Evolutionary Social Science. Part III: The Value and Limitations of Analogies From Biology in the Study of Culture. P. Weingart, W.H. Durham, R. Boyd, P.J. Richerson, Units of Culture, Types of Transmission. W.H. Durham, R. Boyd, P.J. Richerson, Models and Forces of Cultural Evolution. R. Boyd, M. Borgerhoff Mulder, W.D. Durham, P.J. Richerson, Are Cultural Phylogenies Possible? P. Hejl, E. Jablonka, R. Falk, H. Hendrichs, Complex Systems: Multilevel and Multiprocess Approaches.
Biography
Peter Weingart, Sandra D. Mitchell, Peter J. Richerson, abine Maasen
"...should be especially helpful to economists and other social scientists who are looking for a balanced and well-informed primer on the nexus between the biological and the social sciences."
—Journal of Bioeconomics
