The Darwinian Heritage and Sociobiology

Autorentext
JOHAN M. G. van der DENNEN, born in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) in 1944, studied behavioral sciences at the University of Groningen, and is at present a researcher at the Section Political Science of the Department of Legal Theory, formerly the Polemological (Peace Institute), University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on all aspects of human and animal aggression, sexual violence, neuro- and psychopathology of human violence, political violence, theories of war causation, macroquantitative research on contemporary wars, ethnocentrism, and the politics of peace and war in preindustrial societies. In 1995 he published his dissertation, The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-Coalitional Reproductive Strategy, an evolutionary analysis of the origin of intergroup violence in humans and animals. He is Secretary of the European Sociobiological Society (ESS). DAVID SMILLIE was trained as a developmental psychologist and taught at New College, University of South Florida for 25 years./e Since retiring, he has been working as a Visiting Professor in Zoology at Duke University. His articles and book chapters have appeared widely in scholarly publications. DANIEL R. WILSON is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and Medical Director for Public Psychiatry. He has published widely in both general and evolutionary psychiatry.

Klappentext
The editors present a collection of essays dealing with both the life and ideas of Charles Darwin as they relate to human sociobiology. They represent themes coming from evolutionary theory, cultural anthropology, political science, sociology, and psychology and psychiatry. Consistent with E. O. Wilson's Consilience, the compilation also reflects an interest in the humanities and thus offers materials exploring the possibility of a broad synthesis of knowledge relating to human nature. Beyond the theory and evidence offered in these disciplines is the promise of finding explanations for, and solutions to, current human differences and problems.

Zusammenfassung
A collection of essays dealing with both the life and ideas of Charles Darwin as they relate to human sociobiology. They represent themes from evolutionary theory, cultural anthropology, political science, sociology, and psychology and psychiatry.

Inhalt
Introduction by the editors Biological Foundations Group Selection and the Selfish Gene: The Units of Selection Problem Revisited by Michael J.C. Waller The Implications of Darwin's Variational Paradigm by David Smillie Co-operative Genes: Synergy and the Bioeconomics of Evolution by Peter A. Corning Sociobiology and Culture Sociobiology of Human Co-operation: The Interplay of Ultimate and Proximate Causes by Peter Meyer Evolution and Culture: The Missing Link by Robin Allott Evolution: Implications for Epistemology and Cultural Variation by Dennis Werner Culture and the Darwinian Heritage: Implications for Literary Research in the University by John Constable Sociobiology and Political Science Marx, Darwin, and Human Nature by Lucio Ferreira Alves Culture and the Evolution of the Human Mating System by Pouwel Slurink Human Evolution and the Origin of War: A Darwinian Heritage by Johan M.G. van der Dennen Ethnic Conflicts and Ethnic Nepotism by Tatu Vanhanen Mating Patterns and Their Role in the Formation and Structure of the Abbad Tribe in Jordan by Abdalla J. Nabulsi Individual Differences, Brain Size, and Evolutionary Science by J. Philippe Rushton Sociobiology and the Concerns of Sociologists With Whom Was Darwin Supposed to Fall in Love? by Ada Lampert Grandparental Caregiving and Intergenerational Relations Reflect Reproductive Strategies by Harald A. Euler and Barbara Weitzel Marital Power Dynamics: A Darwinian Perspective by Norma J. Schell and Carol C. Weisfeld Sexual Dimorphism and the Evolution of Gender Stereotypes in Man: A Sociobiological Perspective by Marina L. Butovskaya and Alexander G. Kozintsev Evolutionary Psychology and Psychiatry Darwin and the 18th Century British Moral Tradition by Michael Bradie Evolutionary Psychology: The Appropriate Disciplinary Link between Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences by Charles Elworthy Implications of Sexual Selections for Variation in Human Personality and Behaviour by John S. Price Serotonin, Dopamine, and the Evolution of Morality via Sociophysiological Neurotransmission by Daniel R. Wilson, Sean Stanton, and Sandra Wilson Darwinian Analysis of the Emotion of Pride/Shame by Glenn Weisfeld For Further Reading Index

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