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Sense and Nonsense - Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Sense and Nonsense - Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Evolutionary 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.
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