Life History Evolution
Autor Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Michael A. Woodley Of Menie, Heitor B. F. Fernandes, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirreen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 iul 2018
The social sciences share a mission to shed light on human nature and society. However, there is no widely accepted meta-theory; no foundation from which variables can be linked, causally sequenced, or ultimately explained. This book advances “life history evolution” as the missing meta-theory for the social sciences. Originally a biological theory for the variation between species, research on life history evolution now encompasses psychological and sociological variation within the human species that has long been the stock and trade of social scientific study. The eighteen chapters of this book review six disciplines, eighteen authors, and eighty-two volumes published between 1734 and 2015—re-reading the texts in the light of life history evolution.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783319901244
ISBN-10: 3319901249
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: XI, 417 p. 8 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 153 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:1st edition 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3319901249
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: XI, 417 p. 8 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 153 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:1st edition 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
1. Life History Theory: An Overview in the Abstract.- 2. Ellsworth Huntington’s Victorian Climatic Writings.- 3. Adapting within a Matrix of Flora and Fauna.- 4. Scratching Out a Living after the Neolithic Revolution.- 5. The Schedules of Mortality.- 6. Closing the Commons and Opening the Factory.- 7. John Maxwell Landers’ Four Horseman Spurring Humans Faster Along the Life History Continuum.- 8. The Role of Life History in Civilization Cycling.- 9. Epidemiological and Biogeographical Perspectives on Civilization.- 10. Extrapolating from Early Modern Iberia.- 11. Stemming the Tide of Sterility with an Atlas of World Cultures.- 12. Pre-State Societies in the Hobbesian Trap.- 13. Ecological Anthropology and Cultural Materialism.- 14. Towards a Geography of Political Culture.- 15. From Tribe, to Fief, to City-State, to Nation, to Empire.- 16. Weighing the Biological Ballast Informing Class Structure and Class Mobility.- 17. Bequeathing a Dual Inheritance to Life History Theory.- 18.Reframing Parental Investment and Offspring Attachment.- 19. Towards an Evolutionary Ecological Systems Theory.
Notă biografică
Aurelio José Figueredo, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona. Until his retirement in 2022, Dr Figueredo served as Director of the Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology (EEP) Laboratory, which engages in cross-disciplinary research integrating studies of comparative psychology, ethology, sociobiology, behavioural ecology, genetics, and development.
Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, PhD, currently serves as a research associate in the School of Animal and Comparative-Sciences Research at the University of Arizona. His lines of scientific research include the evolution of lethal coalitional aggression in human and nonhuman animals, socioecological correlates of sociopolitical complexity, and multilevel selection.
Steven C. Hertler, PsyD, serves as assistant professor in Saint Elizabeth University's Psychology Department teaching assessment, methodology, and physiological psychology. He reads and writes about history as it documents war, pestilence, migration, famine, agricultural innovations, as well as the social, industrial, and agricultural revolutions which have rapidly shaped our species' evolutionary history over the last few millennia.
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The social sciences share a mission to shed light on human nature and society. However, there is no widely accepted meta-theory; no foundation from which variables can be linked, causally sequenced, or ultimately explained. This book advances “life history evolution” as the missing meta-theory for the social sciences. Originally a biological theory for the variation between species, research on life history evolution now encompasses psychological and sociological variation within the human species that has long been the stock and trade of social scientific study. The eighteen chapters of this book review six disciplines, eighteen authors, and eighty-two volumes published between 1734 and 2015—re-reading the texts in the light of life history evolution.
Caracteristici
Uses a novel approach wherein the works of leading and founding geographers, demographers, historians, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists are re-read using life history evolution Highlights the untold unity among the social sciences, showing that the various disciplines which fall under the term are connected by more than just an interest in human nature Proposes that life history evolution is an integral element throughout the social sciences