On human nature : biology, psychology, ethics, politics, and religion /
"Covers the present state of knowledge on human diversity and its adaptive significance through a broad and eclectic selection of representative chapters. This transdisciplinary work brings together specialists from various fields who rarely interact, including geneticists, evolutionists, physi...
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/AP,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Biological basis of human diversity.
- The advent of biological evolution and humankind: chance or necessity? / C.J. Cela-Conde, F.J. Ayala
- Hominins: context, origins, and taxic diversity / B. Wood, E. Boyle
- The history of early homo / D. Lordkipanidze
- The contribution of genetic ancestry from archaic humans to modern humans / M. Stoneking
- World dispersals and genetic diversity of mankind: the Out-of-Africa Theory and its challenges / A.R. Templeton
- Human population variability and its adaptive significance / M. Tibayrenc
- Evolution and implications of genomic diversity on "human kind" in India / R.M. Pitchappan, G. Arunkumar
- How different are humans and "great apes"?: a matrix of comparative anthropogeny / A. Varki, P. Gagneux
- Human intergroup variation and disease genetics / M. Tibayrenc
- Natural selection associated with infectious diseases / M. Fumagalli, F. Balloux
- Aging, somatic evolution, and cancer / A.I. Rozhok, J. DeGregori
- Evolution of the human leukocyte antigen system / S. Gaudieri, M. John
- Human life history evolution: new perspectives on body and brain growth / S.N. Austad, C.E. Finch
- Gorillas in our midst?: human sexual dimorphism and contest competition in men / A.K. Hill, D.H. Bailey, D.A. Puts
- The human family: evolutionary origins and adaptive significance / M.V. Flinn
- Biological future of humankind: ongoing evolution and the impace of recognition of human biological variation / F. Rühli, M. Henneberg
- Psychology, behavior and society.
- Gene-culture models for the evolution of altruistic teaching / K. Aoki, J.Y. Wakano, M.W. Feldman
- Multiple origins of agriculture in Eurasia and Africa / O. Bar-Yosef
- The quantum origin of life: how the brain evolved to feel good / S. Hameroff
- Empathy, theory of mind, cognition, morality, and altruism / M. Reimers, B. Oakley
- Cognitive ethology and social attention / A. Kingstone, K.E.W. Laidlaw, E. Nasiopoulos, E.F. Risko
- Human sociobiology and group selection theory / J. Alcock
- Behavior analysis, Darwinian evolutionary processes, and the diversity of human behavior / W.M. Baum
- A psychoanalyst views the self across civilizations / A. Roland
- Biological and social causation of serious mental illness / K. McKenzie
- The flexible psychological concept of normality / J. Murphy
- Diversity and hierarchy in the evolution of mental mechanisms / H.C. Barrett
- Human diversity at the individual and population levels, and societal hierarchies / B. Dubreuil
- Homosexuality and evolution: a critical appraisal / J. Roughgarden
- The roots and individual diversity of addiction / A. Bilbao Leis
- Human variability and the origins and evolution of language / T.W. Deacon
- Human evolution and progress / F.J. Ayala
- Culture, brain, and behavior: the implications of neural plasticity and development on social contexts and political structures / R. McDermott
- Ethics, politics and religious considerations.
- Adaptive significance of ethics and aesthetics / F.J. Ayala
- The politics of human nature / M. Kronfeldner
- The race/ethnic debate: an outsider's view / M. Tibayrenc
- Social Darwinism / M. Ruse
- History and diversity of religion / T. Borchert
- Religion viewed from different sciences / G.M. Verschuuren
- Universal humanity, religious particularity, and scientific reductionism / T. Peters
- Evolution and the future of medicine / M.R. Rose, G.A. Rutledge, L.G. Cabral, L.F. Greer, A.L. Canfield, B.G. Cervantes
- The impact of modern medicine on human evolution / F. Zampieri
- Science and technology in human societies: from tool making to technology / C.J. Cela-Conde, F.J. Ayala
- Biology, psychology, ethics, and politics: an innate moral sense? / K.R. Monroe
- What HIV has taught about the interactions between biology, culture, and other evolving systems / S. Mallal.