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This book embeds a novel evolutionary analysis of human group
selection within a comprehensive overview of multilevel selection
theory, a theory wherein evolution proceeds at the level of
individual organisms and collectives, such as human families,
tribes, states, and empires. Where previous works on the topic have
variously supported multilevel selection with logic, theory,
experimental data, or via review of the zoological literature; in
this book the authors uniquely establish the validity of human
group selection as a historical evolutionary process within a
multilevel selection framework. Select portions of the historical
record are examined from a multilevel selectionist perspective,
such that clashing civilizations, decline and fall, law, custom,
war, genocide, ostracism, banishment, and the like are viewed with
the end of understanding their implications for internal cohesion,
external defense, and population demography. In doing so, its
authors advance the potential for further interdisciplinary study
in fostering, for instance, the convergence of history and biology.
This work will provide fresh insights not only for evolutionists
but also for researchers working across the social sciences and
humanities.
This book embeds a novel evolutionary analysis of human group
selection within a comprehensive overview of multilevel selection
theory, a theory wherein evolution proceeds at the level of
individual organisms and collectives, such as human families,
tribes, states, and empires. Where previous works on the topic have
variously supported multilevel selection with logic, theory,
experimental data, or via review of the zoological literature; in
this book the authors uniquely establish the validity of human
group selection as a historical evolutionary process within a
multilevel selection framework. Select portions of the historical
record are examined from a multilevel selectionist perspective,
such that clashing civilizations, decline and fall, law, custom,
war, genocide, ostracism, banishment, and the like are viewed with
the end of understanding their implications for internal cohesion,
external defense, and population demography. In doing so, its
authors advance the potential for further interdisciplinary study
in fostering, for instance, the convergence of history and biology.
This work will provide fresh insights not only for evolutionists
but also for researchers working across the social sciences and
humanities.
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.
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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