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Sense and Nonsense : Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour by Gillian Brown and Kevin N. Laland (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100199586969
ISBN-139780199586967
eBay Product ID (ePID)102910897
Product Key Features
Number of Pages264 Pages
Publication NameSense and Nonsense : Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
SubjectGeneral, Evolutionary Psychology
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPsychology
AuthorGillian Brown, Kevin N. Laland
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-293187
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsReview from previous edition: "This is a superb book." --Johan Bolhuis, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, "This is a remarkable book: succinct informative and very sensible. It strips away the polemic to map a way forward, and is worth reading by anybody interested in how best to analyse human behaviour." --Paul Harvey, T.H.E.S, "I recommend that everyone with some influence or interest in popular culture read this book." --Mark Pagel, New Scientist, 'This is a superb book.'Johan Bolhuis, Trends in Ecology and Evolution'Lucid and balanced, 'Sense and Nonsense' will hopefully reach a broad audience.'Sarah Hrdy'This is a remarkable book: succinct informative and very sensible. It strips away the polemic to map a way forward, and is worth reading by anybody interested in how best to analyse human behaviour.'Paul Harvey, T.H.E.S'Laland and Brown are superb pilots for these treacherous waters. It is an altogether excellent book.'Patrick Bateson'A 'must read' for my undergraduate courses for the foreseeable future.'Henry Plotkin'I recommend that everyone with some influence or interest in popular culture read this book.'Mark Pagel, New Scientist'A welcome and incisive corrective to the disarray within evolutionary social theory.'Herbert Gintis, Human Nature Review, "A welcome and incisive corrective to the disarray within evolutionary social theory." --Herbert Gintis, Human Nature Review, "Laland and Brown are superb pilots for these treacherous waters. It is an altogether excellent book." --Patrick Bateson
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal155.7
Table Of Content1. Sense and nonsense2. A history of evolution and human behaviour3. Human sociobiology4. Human behavioural ecology5. Evolutionary psychology6. Cultural evolution7. Gene-culture coevolution8. Comparing and integrating approachesFurther ReadingReferences
SynopsisEvolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this exercise is at the centre of a heated controversy that has raged for over a century. Many evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and psychologists are optimistic that evolutionary principles can be applied to human behaviour, and have offered evolutionary explanations for a wide range of human characteristics, such as homicide, religion and sex differences in behaviour. Others are sceptical of these interpretations. Moreover, researchers disagree as to the best ways to use evolution to explore humanity, and a number of schools have emerged. Sense and Nonsense 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 co-evolution. In this revised and updated edition of their successful monograph, Laland and Brown provide a balanced, rigorous analysis that scrutinizes 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), to experts on one approach who would like to know more about the other perspectives, and to lay-persons interested in evolutionary explanations of human behaviour. Having completed this book, the reader should 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberBF701
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