Darwin, sex, and status : biological approaches to mind and culture / / Jerome H. Barkow

• Autore: Barkow Jerome H.
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1989; ©1989
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (474 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.5
• Soggetto topico: Sociobiology; Human biology - Social aspects; Human behavior
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Vertically Integrated Explanation""; ""Why Is This Book Necessary?""; ""Adumbration""; ""Evolution Will Not Be Challenged""; ""If No Field Is an Island Then What Are All Those Ferries For?""; ""Summary""; ""Part One. Basic Theory""; ""2 Darwin and Genes""; ""Blind Variation and Selective Retention""; ""Genes and Evolution""; ""Levels of Evolution and Units of Selection""; ""Human Sociobiology""; ""Summary""; ""3 Differing Interests: Deceit, Sex, Rivalry, Influence, and Altruism""; ""More about Genetic Selfishness"" ; ""Reciprocal Altruism: More Calculating""""Sexual Selection""; ""Deception""; ""Sex and Deceit""; ""Deception and the Fitness Interests of Offspring""; ""Infanticide in Langurs as a Test Case""; ""Are the Four DNA Bases Really the Three Fates?""; ""Summary""; ""Part Two. Mind and Awareness""; ""4 Self, Soul, Brain, Body, Mind""; ""The Need for a Sketch of the Intra-Individual System""; ""Fitting into Neurophysiology""; ""Self-Awareness""; ""Finding the Self with a Map""; ""Evolved Complexities of the Self: Deception and Language""; ""Summary""; ""5 Goals, Attention, Awareness"" ; ""The Intra-Individual Information-Processing System""""Goals and Subgoals, Plans and Subplans""; ""Codes""; ""Recapitulation of Goals/Plans/Codes""; ""Pay Attention!""; ""Conflicts with Mr Spock: Emotion and Rationality""; ""Distributed Information-Processing""; ""Assembling the Sketch of the Intra-Individual System""; ""Summary""; ""Part Three. Culture, Prestige, and Self-Esteem""; ""6 Culture: An Introduction""; ""The Concept of Culture""; ""Culture the Creator""; ""Summary""; ""7 Culture and the Intra-Individual System""; ""Review""; ""Culture as Information""; ""Goals and Plans"" ; ""Codes and Subcodes""""Selection and the Information Components of Culture""; ""Ecological Constraints""; ""This Trichotomy Is Provisional""; ""Testing Hypotheses""; ""Summary""; ""8 Relative Standing, Prestige, and Self-Esteem""; ""Outline of This Chapter""; ""Dominance and Aggression""; ""Neurophysiology""; ""The Transition from Primate Dominance to Human Self-Esteem""; ""Social Identity and Skill Category""; ""Males Selecting Females""; ""Self-Esteem""; ""Prestige and Economics""; ""Identity and Criteria for the Allocation of Prestige""; ""Dominance, Development, and Human Ethology"" ; ""Dominance, Prestige, and Reproductive Success""""Unanswered Questions""; ""Summary""; ""9 Prestige Processes in the Context of Culture""; ""Dreams, Deeds, and War: Hausa and Ibo in Nigeria""; ""Two Moslem Men from Maradi""; ""An Incipient Ethnic Split""; ""Conclusions""; ""Summary""; ""Part Four. Alternative Approaches and Maladaptation""; ""10 Other Approaches to Gene-Culture Interrelationships""; ""Similar Components, Different Emphases""; ""Emphasizing Culture""; ""Emphasizing Environment: Marvin Harris and Cultural Materialism""; ""Lumsden, Wilson, Genes, Mind, Culture""
• Sommario/riassunto: A challenging, engaging, and controversial approach to evolution and culture, Darwin, Sex, and Status offers intriguing insights into human behaviour and the forces that have shaped it through the millenia.
• Titolo autorizzato: Darwin, sex, and status
• ISBN: 1-282-05651-4; 9786612056512; 1-4426-7372-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813484003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II