Sense and Nonsense
Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour
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Product details:
- Edition number 3
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 December 2024
- ISBN 9780198908203
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 233x155x15 mm
- Weight 432 g
- Language English 570
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Short description:
Sense and Nonsense, third edition, provides an introduction to the ideas, methods and findings of evolutionary theory.
MoreLong description:
Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring scientific ideas, and it offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. However, researchers disagree about the best ways to use evolution to explore humanity, and a number of schools of thought have emerged.
Sense and Nonsense, third edition, provides an introduction to the ideas, methods and findings of five such schools, namely sociobiology, human behavioural ecology, evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution and gene-culture coevolution. In this revised and updated edition of their successful monograph, Brown and Lala provide a balanced and rigorous analysis that scrutinises both the evolutionary arguments and the allegations of the critics, carefully guiding the reader through the mire of confusing terminology, claim, and counter-claim, and polemical statements.
This readable and informative introductory book will be of use to undergraduate and postgraduate students (for example in psychology, anthropology and zoology), as well as experts on one approach who would like to know more about the other perspectives and lay-persons interested in evolutionary explanations of human behaviour. Having completed the book, the reader will feel better placed to assess the legitimacy of claims made about human behaviour under the name of evolution and to make judgements as to what is sense and what is nonsense.
Lucid and balanced, Sense and Nonsense will hopefully reach a broad audience.
Table of Contents:
Sense and nonsense
A history of evolution and human behaviour
Human sociobiology
Human Behavioural Ecology
Evolutionary Psychology
Cultural Evolution
Gene-Culture Coevolution
Comparing and integrating approaches
