Human Nature
A Critical Reader
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 January 1997
- ISBN 9780195098655
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 234x165x23 mm
- Weight 700 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, figures, tables 0
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Short description:
Human Nature collects the first, "classic," papers to test Darwinian theories on Homo sapiens. It offers new critiques for those classics, written both by the authors themselves, and by biologists who pioneered field studies, comparative studies, and cognitive studies on other species. And it adds a new introduction, reviewing cutting-edge work on human anatomy, physiology, emotions, cognition, and interaction. This is the first text to use our only
theory of life - Darwin's - to explain what we do and who we are.
Long description:
Human Nature collects the first, "classic," papers to test Darwinian theories on Homo sapiens. It offers new critiques for those classics, written both by the authors themselves, and by biologists who pioneered field studies, comparative studies, and cognitive studies on other species. And it adds a new introduction, reviewing cutting-edge work on human anatomy, physiology, emotions, cognition, and interaction. This is the first text to use our only
theory of life - Darwin's - to explain what we do and who we are.
Laura Betzig has edited a timely and stimulating volume that should interest those concerned with human ecology, evolution and behaviour ... Betzig's text provides a thoughtful review and a rich discourse on the (adaptive) nature of human beings, a field destined to contribute to mainstream life science.
Table of Contents:
People are animals
Critique: Inward and outward: mind gets at behavior, behavior at mind
Classic: Cultural and biological success
Critique: Looking back two decades
Classic: Inuit foraging groups: some simple models incorporating conflicts of interest, relatedness, and central place sharing
Critique: Sex is not enough
Classic: Bushman birth spacing: a test for optimal interbirth intervals
Critique: Too good to be true?
Classic: Life histories, blood revenge, and warfare in a tribal population
Critique: Sticks and stones
Classic: Kipsigis women's preferences for wealthy men: evidence for female choice in mammals?
Critique: Marrying a married man
Classic: The evolution of premature reproductive senescence and menopause in human females: an evaluation of the 'grandmother hypothesis'
Critique: How much does gradnma help?
Critique: Forward and backward: alternative approaches to studying human social evolution
Classic: Child abuse and other risks of not living with both parents
Critique: Cinderella revisited
Classic: Sex differences in human mate preferences: evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures
Critique: Just another brick in the wall
Classic: Sex differences in sexual fantasy: an evolutionary psychological aporoach
Critique: Unobtrusive measures of human sexuality
Classic: Evolution, traits, and the stages of human courtship: qualifying the parental investment model
Critique: Where and when are women more selective than men?
Classic: Evolutionary analysis of psychological pain of rape victims
Rape-victim psychological pain revisited
Classic: Cognitive adaptations for social exchange Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
Critique: Think again
Critique: Tips, branches and nodes: seeking adaptation through comparative studies
Classic: Paternal confidence and dowry competition: a biocultural analysis of purdah
Critique: Cleo unveiled
Classic: Polygyny and the inheritance of wealth
Critique: If I had it to do over
Classic: Cross-cultural patterns in the training of children
Critique: Comparing snakes and snails and puppy-dog tails to sugar and spice: reflections on cross-cultural testing of hypotheses
Classic: Dowry as female competition
Critique: When are husbands worth fighting for?
Classic: Roman polygyny
Critique: Why a despot?
Classic: Fitness tradeoffs in the history and evolution of delegated mothering with special reference to wet-nursing, abandonment, and infanticide
Critique: Mainstreaming Medea
