1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461919803321

Autore

Sofaer Abraham D

Titolo

The best defense? [[electronic resource] ] : legitimacy and preventive force / / by Abraham D. Sofaer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8179-1003-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 576

Disciplina

327

Soggetti

Preemptive attack (Military science)

Security, International

Terrorism - Prevention

Intervention (International law)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A report of the Stanford University Task Force on Preventive Force"--Title page.

"Revisions based on the Asia meeting, and on comments from African and Latin American consultations, are incorporated into this report"--Introduction.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER ONE: Introduction""; ""CHAPTER TWO: Defining Preventive Force""; ""CHAPTER THREE: Current Threats and Preventive Force""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: Categories of Preventive Action""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: Dangers and Limitations of Using Preventive Force""; ""CHAPTER SIX: International Law and Preventive Force""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN: Legitimacy and Preventive Force""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""About the Author""

""The Stanford Task Force on Preventive Force""""Index""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957002103321

Autore

Trivers Robert

Titolo

Natural selection and social theory : selected papers of Robert L. Trivers / / Robert Trivers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770171-X

9786610472567

1-280-47256-1

1-282-36724-2

9786612367243

1-4237-3527-7

0-19-535142-8

1-60256-380-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Evolution and cognition

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

304.5

Soggetti

Sociobiology

Evolution (Biology)

Social evolution in animals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A collection of 10 papers, 5 published in scholarly journals between 1971-1976 and 5 between 1982-2000.

Reciprocal altruism -- Parental investment and reproductive success -- The Trivers-Willard effect -- Parent-offspring conflict -- Haplodiploidy and the social insects -- Size and reproductive success in a lizard -- Selecting good genes for daughters -- Self-deception in service of deceit -- Genomic imprinting -- Fluctuating asymmmetry and 2nd:4th digit ratio in children.

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Reciprocal altruism -- 2. Parental investment and reproductive success -- 3. The Trivers-Willard effect -- 4. Parent-offspring conflict -- 5. Haplodiploidy and the social insects -- 6. Size and reproductive success in a lizard -- 7. Selecting good genes for



daughters -- 8. Self-deception in service of deceit -- 9. Genomic imprinting -- 10. Fluctuating asymmetry and the 2nd : 4th digit ratio in children -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

Robert Trivers is a pioneering figure in the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of reciprocal altruism, parent-offspring conflicts, and asymmetry in sexual selection, which helped to establish the centrality of sociobiology, as well as some of his later work on deceit in signalling, sex antagonistic genes, and imprinting. Trivers introduces each paper, setting them in their contemporary context, and critically evaluating them in the light of subsequent work and further developments. The result is a unique portrait of the intellectual development of sociobiology, with valuable insights for evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology.