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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.
This book supplies the evolutionary and genetic framework that
Charles Murray, towards the end of Coming Apart: The State of White
America 1960-2010, predicts will one day explain revolutionary
change in American society. Murray's Coming Apart documents 50
years of changed college admissions, government incentives, mating
and migration patterns that have wrought national divisions across
indexes of marriage, industriousness, honesty, and religiosity. The
framework discussed is life history evolution, a sub-discipline
within evolutionary biology singly capable of explaining why
violent crime, property crime, low marriage rates, father absence,
early birth, low educational achievement, low income, poverty, lack
of religiosity and reduced achievement striving will reliably
co-occur as part of a complex. This complex augments facultatively,
developmentally and evolutionarily in response to unpredictable and
uncontrollable sources of mortality. The uncertain tenure of life
wrought by unpredictable and uncontrollable mortality selects for a
present-oriented use of bioenergetics resources recognizable as the
social ills of Fishtown, Murray's archetypal working class
community. In turn, the thirty years of life history literature
herein reviewed confirms the biological logic of elite
intermarriage and sequestration. The source of life history
variation, policy implications, and demography are discussed.
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.
This book supplies the evolutionary and genetic framework that
Charles Murray, towards the end of Coming Apart: The State of White
America 1960-2010, predicts will one day explain revolutionary
change in American society. Murray's Coming Apart documents 50
years of changed college admissions, government incentives, mating
and migration patterns that have wrought national divisions across
indexes of marriage, industriousness, honesty, and religiosity. The
framework discussed is life history evolution, a sub-discipline
within evolutionary biology singly capable of explaining why
violent crime, property crime, low marriage rates, father absence,
early birth, low educational achievement, low income, poverty, lack
of religiosity and reduced achievement striving will reliably
co-occur as part of a complex. This complex augments facultatively,
developmentally and evolutionarily in response to unpredictable and
uncontrollable sources of mortality. The uncertain tenure of life
wrought by unpredictable and uncontrollable mortality selects for a
present-oriented use of bioenergetics resources recognizable as the
social ills of Fishtown, Murray's archetypal working class
community. In turn, the thirty years of life history literature
herein reviewed confirms the biological logic of elite
intermarriage and sequestration. The source of life history
variation, policy implications, and demography are discussed.
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