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Human Evolution
A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change
Hardcover (February 2002)
University of Chicago Press;
ISBN: 0226092011
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This study gathers skeletal evidence on seven basic indicators
of health to assess chronic conditions that affected individuals who lived in
the Western Hemisphere from 5000 B.C. to the late nineteenth century. Signs
of biological stress in childhood and of degeneration in joints and in teeth
increased in the several millenia before the arrival of Columbus as populations
moved into less healthy ecological environments.
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Human Evolutionary Psychology
by Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar,
John Lycett
Paperback
- 464 pages (April 2002)
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN:
0691096228 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.94 x 9.46 x 6.99
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Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren
at greatest risk of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must
Dogon wives live alone in a dark hut for five days a month? Why are young children
good at learning language but not sharing? Over the past decade, psychologists
and behavioral ecologists have been finding answers to such seemingly unrelated
questions by applying an evolutionary perspective to the study of human behavior
and psychology. Human Evolutionary Psychology is a comprehensive, balanced,
and readable introduction to this burgeoning field. It combines a sophisticated
understanding of the basics of evolutionary theory with a solid grasp of empirical
case studies.
Covering not only such traditional subjects as kin selection and mate choice, this text also examines more complex understandings of marriage practices and inheritance rules and the way in which individual action influences the structure of societies and aspects of cultural evolution. It critically assesses the value of evolutionary explanations to humans in both modern Western society and traditional preindustrial societies. And it fairly presents debates within the field, identifying areas of compatibility among sometimes competing approaches.
Combining a broad scope with the more in-depth knowledge and sophisticated understanding needed to approach the primary literature, this text is the ideal introduction to the exciting and rapidly expanding study of human evolutionary psychology.
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This book attempts a broad theoretical synthesis within the field of
sociology and its closely allied sister discipline of anthropology. It draws
together what the author considers the best of these disciplines' theoretical
approaches into a synthesized theory called Darwinian conflict theory. This
theory, in the most general sense, is a synthesis of the tradition of economic
and ecological materialism and conflict theory stemming from Marx, Marvin
Harris, and the tradition of biological materialism deriving from Darwin. The
first half of the book is taken up with critiques of existing theoretical
approaches; this then leads to the full elaboration, in formal propositional
form, of synthetic theory. The second half of the book lays out the large amount
of evidence, both qualitative and quantitative, that supports the synthesized
theory.
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Meat-Eating and
Human Evolution (Human Evolution Series)
by Craig B. Stanford
(Editor), Henry T. Bunn (Editor)
Hardcover (May 2001)
Oxford University Press;
ISBN: 0195131398
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The first thing that Harvard University biology professor Stephen Palumbi
wants you to know is that evolution is a fact, not a theory. The second is this:
evolution does not require eons and eons to make its effects manifest. By
tinkering with genes and rewriting the laws of natural selection, we humans have
lately been "accelerating the evolutionary game, especially among the
species that live with us most intimately"--not our pets, that is to say,
but the food we eat, the pests that share that food, and the diseases that visit
us.
Almost all of this accelerated evolution--which, as in the pointed case of the human immunodeficiency virus, occurs faster than we can track it--is an unintended, accidental consequence of some well-intentioned effort to improve human life by sidestepping nature. One such consequence is the growing incidence of drug-resistant bacteria and viruses, which have mutated to survive antibiotic treatments to the point that postoperative infections from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus now pose a major threat to hospitals. Another is the arrival of pests that have evolved to survive pesticides of many kinds, pests that threaten crops around the world in a time of ever-increasing scarcity. All this, Palumbi writes, is "evolution with teeth," and such responses to our hapless prompting make humans the most potent evolutionary form the planet has ever known. Whether we can survive our own power to reshape the earth remains a question. But, Palumbi concludes, ideas evolve, too, so that we can hope against hope to think our way back to more or less normal cycles of evolutionary change. Well-written and provocative, his book makes for a useful start. --Gregory McNamee
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Dear Mr. Darwin: Letters on the Evolution
of Life and Human Nature
by Gabriel Dove
Hardcover - 262 pages
(September 4, 2000)
Univ California Press;
ISBN: 0520227905
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Anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to talk to Charles
Darwin about changes that have taken place in evolutionary biology since his
death will be fascinated by this witty and literate blend of science, history,
and biography. Stimulated by Darwin's relatively uninformed but obviously intelligent
questions, Gabriel Dover takes the father of evolution on an exhilarating roller-coaster
ride through the new genetics. The imagined two-way correspondence between Dover
and Darwin about the surprising findings of modern genetics and the evolution
of biological novelties, from genes to organisms, is both erudite and entertaining.
In the process, Dover presents a startlingly original view of development and
evolution that puts the individual organism on center stage.
Creating a cultural backdrop that ranges from the poetry of Ted Hughes to the music of Captain Beefheart to the current crisis in the Balkans, Dover debunks the naively deterministic view of selfish genes and their supposed lonely pursuits of self-replication and self-immortalization. He reveals a world of evolution far more intricate and subtle than can be expected from the notion of natural selection acting alone in which genes are born to cooperate.
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Gabriel Dover is an internationally recognized authority on the evolution
of genes and genomes and is the originator of the molecular drive theory of
evolution. He has written more than 150 research papers and edited several books
on modern aspects of molecular and developmental evolution. He is currently
Professor of Genetics at the University of Leicester.
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Extinct Humans
by Ian Tattersall,
Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Hardcover - 224 pages (July 2000)
Westview Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0813334829
; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 10.32 x 8.36
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 2,201
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Dawn of Man: The Story of Human Evolution
by Robin Mckie
Hardcover - 288 pages
1 Amer Ed edition (August 2000)
DK Publishing; ISBN: 0789462621
; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 11.14 x 8.76
One of the few unique attributes of humans, which sets us apart from our nearest living relatives, the chimps, is a concern with our own history. Although anthropologists and archaeologists have conducted serious scientific investigation of our ancestry for well over 150 years, it is still a bit surprising how little we know.
The quest to discover our story is a bit like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle without a picture to tell us what the finished puzzle should look like. To further the metaphor, we also have no idea how many pieces there are altogether, and the few pieces we do have are mostly incomplete. Practically any new bit of evidence can change our idea of the overall picture, so the story of human evolution is constantly changing. As science editor for Britain's Observer newspaper, McKie is able to provide a very readable and up-to-date account of our remarkable story.
One of the most compelling questions explored by McKie concerns our relationship with the Neanderthal people, who died out 30,000 years ago. Comparison of Neanderthal DNA with that of living humans suggests that our ancestors did not interbreed with the Neanderthals. Recently, however, skeletons have been found that seem to show a complete mixture of Neanderthal and modern human (Cro-Magnon) characters. In Dawn of Man, McKie quotes extensively from interviews with the scientists who work on human prehistory, so we get as close as possible to the bare bones of the story. The excellent text, art work, photos, and graphics in Dawn of Man make it a capable stand-alone, very attractive for the general reader. --Douglas Palmer
Lucy's Legacy : Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
In his clinical practice, Klawans thought about the evolution of the brain to try to understand his patients' problems, and vice versa. His theme throughout is that brain development is about windows of opportunity: many things can only be learned in certain periods, and after puberty in particular the brain has been largely "pruned to shape," so that skills like language and music may never be properly acquired.
The cavewoman of the title is the one who stayed home taking care of the babies while Man the Hunter was off spearheading the Ascent of Man (in what Stephen Jay Gould, one of Klawans's favorite writers, calls an "evolutionary just-so story"). Not so, says Klawans: because the window of opportunity for learning language is in childhood, especially early childhood, language must have arisen between mothers and children: "though few defend the Cavewoman, we all speak our mother's tongue." --Mary Ellen Curtin
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Colin Tudge overturns the traditional view that farming began in the
Middle East 10,000 years ago, quickly led to the Neolithic farming revolution,
and ended the hunting-gathering lifestyle. Agriculture in some form had been
practiced for thousands of years before that, Tudge argues. Neolithic farming
was not the beginning of agriculture but the beginning of agriculture on a large
scale, in one place, with refined tools.
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Life is a long, strange trip, and in The Origins of Life, John Maynard
Smith and Eörs Szathmáry blast you through its three-and-a-half-billion-year history at
breathtaking pace.
Life, we learn, is information, transmitted in ever more intricate ways across the generations. Self-replicating chemicals walled themselves into cells, organized themselves into regimented communities of chromosomes, swapped notes with other populations to become sexual, cloned themselves to form multicellular colonies called organisms, got together with other colonies to form societies, and, eventually, in the case of one particular ape, developed the ability to put this whole story down on paper.
For those evolutionists brought up on the theory of "red queens" and "self genes," Origins provides a complementary crash course in the practical nuts-and-bolts biology behind the headlines. The authors describe the technical problems involved in the transition from one stage to another, and explain the ingenious and often fortuitous steps that natural selection took to overcome them. For example, the rigid walls of the first cells gave way to more flexible membranes that could engulf food particles and incorporate "little organs" such as mitochondria. A "cytoskeleton" of filaments and tubules was needed to maintain the cell's integrity, and--presto!--this structure was the perfect motorway for intracellular traffic, ideal for shearing the cell apart during cloning, and provided the earliest means of locomotion, such as the tail of sperm.
With this attention to detail, the book requires careful reading--but it's
worth it. Maynard Smith and Szathmáry's book makes you realize just how lucky you are to
be alive. --Oliver Curry, Amazon.co.uk
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These are the questions investigation by anthropologist Jeffrey K. McKee. He argues that if we were to turn back the clock to our split from ancestral apes, evolution would proceed differently. Ever since our ancestors first stood up on two feet, natural selection undoubtedly was an important factor in guiding human evolution. But McKee shakes the standard notion that natural selection steered early hominids toward particular environmental adaptations. The fossil remains of our ancestors direction. It becomes clear that the evolutionary road to Homo Sapiens was not paved solely by natural selection; There was just a dim pat cut out by prehistoric coincidences and contingencies. Had any link in the evolutionary chain of events been slightly different, then our species would not be as t is today... or our ancestors may not have survived at all.
With both humor and awe, McKee illustrates how the chain of evolution has been riddled with chance, coincidence, and chaos. He uses familiar examples, noting that many of us exist as individuals because of chance meeting of our parents. From the present back through prehistory, chance is at the heart of our creation-as is chaos. The classic example of chaos is the butterfly effect: a single butterfly, flapping its wings, causes a tiny change in the atmosphere, which in turn amplifies to affect the course of storms on another continent. McKee ties such example of unpredictability to fossil evidence and computer simulations, revealing the natural coincidences that shaped our evolution. Although chaos exacted an evolutionary price by limiting the powers of natural selection, it also made us what we are. One can only conclude that human beings were neither inevitable- nor probable.
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Jeffrey K. McKee is an associate professor in the departments of
anthropology and evolution, ecology, and organismal biology at The Ohio State
University. He is the coauthor of Understanding Human Evolution.
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Designed to help readers learn how to think like evolutionary
biologists, this 4-color book approaches evolutionary biology as a dynamic field
of inquiry and as a process. Using a theme-based approach, it illustrates the
interplay between theory, observation, testing and interpretation. It offers
commentary on strengths and weaknesses of data sets, gives detailed examples
rather than a broad synoptic approach, includes many data graphics and boxes
regarding both sides of controversies. Introduces each major organizing theme in
evolution through a question--e.g., How has HIV become drug resistant? Why did
the dinosaurs, after dominating the land vertebrates for 150 million years,
suddenly go extinct? Are humans more closely related to gorillas or to
chimpanzees? Focuses on many applied, reader-relevant topics--e.g., evolution
and human health, the evolution of senescence, sexual selection, social
behavior, eugenics, and biodiversity and conservation. Then develops the
strategies that evolutionary biologists use for finding an answers to such
questions. Then considers the observations and experiments that test the
predictions made by competing hypotheses, and discusses how the data are
interpreted. For anyone interested in human evolution, including those working
in human and animal health care, environmental management and conservation,
primary and secondary education, science journalism, and biological and medical
research.
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The reader is swept up in Bloom's vision of the power of mass minds and, before long, can't help seeing the similarities between ecosystems, street gangs, and the Internet. Were Bloom not so learned and well-respected--more than a third of his book is devoted to notes and references, and luminaries from Lynn Margulis to Richard Metzger have lined up behind him--it would be tempting to dismiss him as a crank. His enthusiasm, the grand scale of his thinking, and his transcendence of traditional academic disciplines can be daunting, but the new outlook yielded to the persistent is simultaneously exciting and humbling. Bloom takes the old-school, sci-fi dystopian vision of group thinking and turns it around--Global Brain predicts that our future's going to be less like the Borg and more like a great party. --Rob Lightner
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Evolution in Health and Disease
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Evolutionary AnalysisEvolution
and the Capacity for Commitment
by Randolph M. Nesse
(Editor)
Hardcover (November 2001)
Russell Sage Foundation;
ISBN: 0871546221
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Darwinian Dynamics : Evolutionary
Transitions in Fitness and Individuality
By Richard E. Michod
Hardcover - 280
pages (March 1999)
Princeton Univ
Pr; ISBN: 0691026998 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.92 x 9.50 x 6.37
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The concept of fitness has long been a topic of intense debate among
evolutionary biologists and their critics, with its definition and explanatory
power coming under attack. In this book, Richard Michod offers a fresh,
dynamical interpretation of evolution and fitness concepts. He argues that
evolution has no enduring products; what matters is the process of genetic
change. Whereas many biologists have focused on competition and aggression as
determining factors in survival, Michod, by concentrating on the emergence of
individuality at new and more complex levels, finds that cooperation plays even
a greater role.
Michod first considers the principles behind the hierarchically nested
levels of organization that constitute life: genes, chromosomes, genomes, cells,
multicellular organisms, and societies. By examining the evolutionary
transitions from the molecular level up to the whole organism, the author
explains how cooperation and conflict in a multilevel setting leads to new
levels of fitness. He builds a model of fitness drawing on recent developments
in ecology and multilevel selection theory and on new explanations of the origin
of life. Michod concludes with a discussion of the philosophical implications of
his theory of fitness, a theory that addresses the most fundamental and unique
concept in all of biology.
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Biological Anthropology: An Synthetic Approach to Human Evolution.
By Noel T. Boaz & Alan J. Almquist
Paperback
Prentice Hall, July, 1996
ISBN: 0133692086
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This innovative new text uses a narrative approach to introduce
readers to human evolution and the dynamic subfields of biological anthropology.
Evolution by natural selection provides the thread as readers learn the
essentials of biological anthropology and genetics. In each section, behavior,
morphology, adaptation, and ecology are discussed to provide the context and
comparative bases for human origins. The human adaptation to culture and the
interworkings of culture, biology, behavior, and evolution are emphasized.
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
By Daniel C. Dennett
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In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett insists on the importance of
considering consciousness from the evolutionary point of view. Darwin's Dangerous Idea
elaborates upon his theory of the evolution of consciousness, but also compendiously
presents his views on the nature and significance of evolutionary thinking. The eponymous
dangerous idea is, of course, the idea of evolution by natural selection, which Dennett
esteems as "the single best idea anyone has ever had." When the theory is
applied to Homo sapiens, however, the result threatens to be "the universal
acid," eating through everything of value and leaving nothing in its place. One of
Dennett's prime concerns is to argue that evolutionary explanations can demystify without
destroying.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea is divided into three parts. In the first part,
"Starting in the Middle," Dennett places the idea of evolution by natural
selection in its historical context then explains it in his characteristically vivacious
style. In the second part, "Darwinian Thinking in Biology," he critically
examines challenges to Darwin's idea. Connoisseurs of intellectual controversy will
especially relish chapter 10 ("Bully for Brontosaurus"), in which Stephen Jay
Gould is castigated for misleadingly presenting his views as radical and anti-Darwinian.
Finally, in the third part, Dennett discusses the implications of Darwinian thinking for
"Mind, Meaning, Mathematics, and Morality." Among the luminaries targeted here
are Noam Chomsky and Roger Penrose. Throughout, Dennett manages to synthesize information
from many different fields into one unified view of life and its meaning. Writing with
style and wit, he again shows that he merits his reputation as one of the best
popularizers of science. --Glenn Branch
Paperback
Touchstone Books, Jun. 1996
ISBN: 068482471X
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Evolution's Eye : A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide (Science and Cultural Theory)While acknowledging that, in an uncertain world, it is easy to "blame it on the genes," Oyama claims that the renewed trend toward genetic determinism colors the way we think about everything from human evolution to sexual orientation and personal responsibility. She presents instead a view that focuses on how a wide variety of developmental factors interact in the multileveled developmental systems that give rise to organisms. Shifting attention away from genes and the environment as causes for behavior, she convincingly shows the benefits that come from thinking about life processes in terms of developmental systems that produce, sustain, and change living beings over both developmental and evolutionary time.
Providing a genuine alternative to genetic and environmental determinism, as well as to unsuccessful compromises with which others have tried to replace them, Evolution's Eye will fascinate students and scholars who work in the fields of evolution, psychology, human biology, and philosophy of science. Feminists and others who seek a more complex view of human nature will find her work especially congenial. --This text refers to the
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Mystery of Mysteries : Is Evolution
a Social Construction?
by Michael Ruse
Hardcover - 320 pages
(April 1999)
Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 067446706X
; Dimensions (in inches): 1.22 x 9.57 x 6.52
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With the recent Sokal hoax-the publication of a prominent physicist's
pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies-the status of science
moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested
reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective,
a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the
fray comes Mystery of Mysteries, an enlightening inquiry into the nature of
science, using evolutionary theory as a case study. Michael Ruse begins with
such colorful luminaries as Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and Julian
Huxley (brother of novelist Aldous and grandson of T. H. Huxley, Darwin's bulldog')
and ends with the work of the English game theorist Geoffrey Parker-a microevolutionist
who made his mark studying the mating strategies of dung flies-and the American
paleontologist Jack Sepkoski, whose computer-generated models reconstruct mass
extinctions and other macro events in life's history. Along the way Ruse considers
two great popularizers of evolution, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould,
as well as two leaders in the field of evolutionary studies, Richard Lewontin
and Edward O. Wilson, paying close attention to these figures' cultural commitments:
Gould's transplanted Germanic idealism, Dawkins's male-dominated Oxbridge circle,
Lewontin's Jewish background, and Wilson's southern childhood. Ruse explicates
the role of metaphor and metavalues in evolutionary thought and draws significant
conclusions about the cultural impregnation of science. Identifying strengths
and weaknesses on both sides of the "science wars," he demonstrates
that a resolution of the objective and subjective debate is nonetheless possible
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In this influential and controversial book that has become a classic
in popular science writing, Dawkins furthers his fascinating look at the evolution
of life and natural selection.
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Reviews Amazon.com Richard Dawkins is not a shy man. Edward Larson's research shows that most scientists today are not formally religious, but Dawkins is an in-your-face atheist in the witty British style:
I want to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true, but that it is the only known theory that could, in principle, solve the mystery of our existence. The title of this 1986 work, Dawkins's second book, refers to the Rev. William Paley's 1802 work, Natural Theology, which argued that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Dawkins: "All appearances to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way... it is the blind watchmaker." Dawkins is a hard-core scientist: he doesn't just tell you what is so, he shows you how to find out for yourself. For this book, he wrote Biomorph, one of the first artificial life programs. You can check Dawkins's results on your own Mac or PC. |
Darwinism Applied: Evolutionary Paths to Social Goals (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)
By John H. Beckstrom
Hardcover
Prageger Publication Text, Sept. 1993
ISBN: 0275945685
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Beckstrom explores how discoveries in evolutionary science can help
people achieve, but not establish, social goals. Beginning with the principle
that human behavior is, to some degree, influenced by genetics, the author
considers how conduct can be modified in large population groupings using
identified behavioral mechanisms. Aid-giving behavior common to human
populations is established as a key factor that is fundamental to an
understanding of its "flip side" involving abuse and neglect. The
universal objectives of reducing child abuse, rape, incest, and war are
explicitly addressed, as are such areas as intestate property distribution,
street crime reduction, and the fostering or discouragement of patriotism. This
book is a clear treatment of what practical implications neo-Darwinism can have
for contemporary societies.
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Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy: The Biological Bases of Authoritariamism (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)
By Albert Somit & Steven a. Peterson
Hardcover
Praeger Publishing Text, Mar. 1997
ISBN: 0275958175
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Somit and Peterson seek to explain an incontrovertible, though hardly
welcome fact: throughout human history, the overwhelming majority of political
societies have been characterized by the rule of the few over the many, by
dominance and submission, by command and obedience. Evolutionary theory provides
an important part of the explanation: humans have been subject to natural
selection and one result is that the species tends to feature dominance
hierarchies, obedience to authority, and indoctrinability as various means of
maintaining social order. These evolution-based behavioral tendencies help to
explain the success of authoritarianism and the relative lack of success of
democracy over time.
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Darwin Machines & the Nature of Knowledge
by Henry C. Plotkin
Paperback
Harvard University Press, April 1997
ISBN: 0674192818
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How Humans Evolved
By Robert Boyd & Joan B. Silk
Paperback
W.W. Norton & Co., Feb. 1997
ISBN: 0393970760
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How Humans Evolved by Robert Boyd and Joan B. Silk provides a
comprehensive college-level introduction to the study of biological anthropology.
Rather than simply providing a list of facts, How Humans Evolved encourages
students to think critically about the process of human evolution by engaging
students in theoretical discussions and debates and by asking them to wrestle
with larger questions, such as how humans acquired language, why we age and
eventually die, why only women nurse babies, and why human morphology differs
across geographical regions. The text is also accompanied by an outstanding
ancillary package for instructors.
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts & the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley
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Penquin Press, April 1998
ISBN: 0140264450
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Staying Human in the Organization: Our Biological Heritage and the Workplace (Human Evolutlion, Behavior, and Intelligence)
By J. Gary Bernhard & Kalman Glantz
Hardcover
Praeger Publication Text, Oct. 1992
ISBN: 0275942953
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The Selfish Gene
By Richard Dawkins
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Why are there miles and miles of "unused" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Oxford University Press, Sept. 1990
ISBN: 0192860925
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Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution
What Strategies Can Support the Evolutionary Emergence of Cooperation
by Jack Hirshleifer & Juan Carlos Martines Coll
Hardcover
University of California Press, Mar. 1996
ISBN: 0866820752
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