The Origins and Nature of Sociality
AldineTransaction (Verlag)
978-0-202-30731-2 (ISBN)
This book results from a symposium sponsored by the Program for Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The organizers of the symposium are the editors of this volume. Contributors focus on the current status of research on sociality and the evolution of behavior in nonhuman and human primates. Against the tendency of sociobiologists to emphasize the selfishness of the gene pool, the authors examine questions related to the evolution, cultural viability, and hormonal underpinnings of human sociality, and describe patterns of sociality among nonhuman primates for the light these may shed light on human social behavior.
Robert W. Sussman
I: Introduction; 1: The Nature and Evolution of Sociality: Introduction; II: Origins of Sociality; 2: Mammalian and Primate Roots of Human Sociality; 3: Wild Justice, Cooperation, and Fair Play: Minding Manners, Being Nice, and Feeling Good; 4: Management of Aggression as a Component of Sociality; III: Mechanisms of Sociality; 5: Proximate Mechanisms Regulating Sociality and Social Monogamy, in the Context of Evolution; 6: Signals, Symbols, and Human Cooperation; 7: Darwinian Evolution by the Natural Selection of Heritable Variation: Definition of Parameters and Application to Social Behaviors; IV: Primate Sociality; 8: Rethinking Sociality: Cooperation and Aggression among Primates; 9: Sociality among Kin and Nonkin in Nonhuman Primate Groups; 10: Revisiting Conflict Resolution: Is There a Role for Emphasizing Negotiation and Cooperation Instead of Conflict and Reconciliation?; V: Evolution of Sociality; 11: Emergent Behaviors and Human Sociality; 12: Sociality and the Concept of Culture in Human Origins; 13: Large-Game Hunting and the Evolution of Human Sociality; 14: Cooperation, Commitment, and Communication in the Evolution of Human Sociality; VI: Philosophical Overview; 15: Primate Sociality and Natural Law Theory: A Case Study on the Relevance of Science for Ethics
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2004 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Numerous fig. and tab. |
| Verlagsort | Somerset |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 469 g |
| Einbandart | Paperback |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-202-30731-X / 020230731X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-202-30731-2 / 9780202307312 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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