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The Social Evolution of Human Nature
Author | : Harry Smit |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107055193 |
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Harry Smit examines the elements of current evolutionary theory and how they bear on the evolution of the human mind.
The Social Cage
Author | : Alexandra Maryanski,Jonathan H. Turner |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804720029 |
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The authors assert that traditional sociological theories of human nature and society do not pay sufficient attention to the evolution of "big-brained hominoids," resulting in assumptions about humans' propensity for "groupness" that go against the record of primate evolution. When this record is analyzed in detail, and is supplemented by a review of the social structures of contemporary apes and the basic types of human societies (hunter-gathering, horticultural, agrarian, and industrial), commonplace criticisms about the de-humanizing effects of industrial society appear overdrawn, if not downright incorrect. The book concludes that the mistakes in contemporary social theory - as well as much of general social commentary - stem from a failure to analyze humans as "big-brained" apes with certain phylogenetic tendencies. This failure is usually coupled with a willingness to romanticize societies of the past, notably horticultural and agrarian systems
Human Nature and the Evolution of Society
Author | : Stephen K. Sanderson |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780813349374 |
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If evolution has changed humans physically, has it also affected human behavior? Drawing on evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and human behavioral ecology, Human Nature and the Evolution of Society explores the evolutionary dynamics underlying social life. In this introduction to human behavior and the organization of social life, Stephen K. Sanderson discusses traditional subjects like mating behavior, kinship, parenthood, status-seeking, and violence, as well as important topics seldom included in books of this type, especially gender, economies, politics, foodways, race and ethnicity, and the arts. Examples and research on a wide range of human societies, both industrial and nonindustrial, are integrated throughout. With chapter summaries of key points, thoughtful discussion questions, and important terms defined within the text, the result is a broad-ranging and comprehensive consideration of human society, thoroughly grounded in an evolutionary perspective.
Human Nature and the Evolution of Society
Author | : Stephen K. Sanderson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780429979590 |
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If evolution has changed humans physically, has it also affected human behavior? Drawing on evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and human behavioral ecology, Human Nature and the Evolution of Society explores the evolutionary dynamics underlying social life. In this introduction to human behavior and the organization of social life, Stephen K. Sanderson discusses traditional subjects like mating behavior, kinship, parenthood, status-seeking, and violence, as well as important topics seldom included in books of this type, especially gender, economies, politics, foodways, race and ethnicity, and the arts. Examples and research on a wide range of human societies, both industrial and nonindustrial, are integrated throughout. With chapter summaries of key points, thoughtful discussion questions, and important terms defined within the text, the result is a broad-ranging and comprehensive consideration of human society, thoroughly grounded in an evolutionary perspective.
New Evolutionary Social Science
Author | : Heinz-Jurgen Niedenzu,Tamas Meleghy,Peter Meyer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317255482 |
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Social scientists have long declared their autonomy from the natural sciences, and in doing so have tended to neglect important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories have suggested a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life. The New Evolutionary Social Science challenges this view by building on Stephen K. Sanderson's 'Darwinian conflict theory' which sets out to synthesise sociological theories with key findings from biology into an overarching scientific paradigm. Configuring and expanding this groundbreaking theory, the contributors to this volume are well-known European and American experts in evolutionary science. The New Evolutionary Social Science develops a new basis for understanding social change and the world's future through a better integration of the natural and social sciences.
New Evolutionary Social Science
Author | : Heinz-Jurgen Niedenzu,Tamas Meleghy,Peter Meyer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317255475 |
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Social scientists have long declared their autonomy from the natural sciences, and in doing so have tended to neglect important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories have suggested a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life. The New Evolutionary Social Science challenges this view by building on Stephen K. Sanderson's 'Darwinian conflict theory' which sets out to synthesise sociological theories with key findings from biology into an overarching scientific paradigm. Configuring and expanding this groundbreaking theory, the contributors to this volume are well-known European and American experts in evolutionary science. The New Evolutionary Social Science develops a new basis for understanding social change and the world's future through a better integration of the natural and social sciences.
Ultrasocial
Author | : John M. Gowdy |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021-08-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781108838269 |
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Society is an ultrasocial superorganism whose requirements take precedence over individuals. What does this mean for humanity's future?
On Human Nature
Author | : Jonathan H. Turner |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2020-11-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000213751 |
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In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature as inherited from common ancestors shared by humans and present-day great apes. Selection pressures altered this inherited legacy for the ancestors of humans—termed hominins for being bipedal—and forced greater organization than extant great apes when the hominins moved into open-country terrestrial habitats. The effects of these selection pressures increased hominin ancestors’ emotional capacities through greater social and group orientation. This shift, in turn, enabled further selection for a larger brain, articulated speech, and culture along the human line. Turner elaborates human nature as a series of overlapping complexes that are the outcome of the inherited legacy of great apes being fed through the transforming effects of a larger brain, speech, and culture. These complexes, he shows, can be understood as the cognitive complex, the psychological complex, the emotions complex, the interaction complex, and the community complex.