Title Human by nature : between biology and the social sciences / edited by Peter Weingart ... [and others]

Published Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997

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Description x, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Pt. I. Contexts -- Introduction: Bridges Between Biology and the Social Sciences. 1. Looking Back: Historical and Theoretical Context of Present Practice / Jonathan H. Turner, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Leda Cosmides [et al.]. 2. Shifting Boundaries Between the Biological and the Social: The Social and Political Contexts / Peter Weingart, Sabine Maasen and Ullica Segerstrale. 3. The Whys and Hows of Interdisciplinarity / Sandra D. Mitchell, Lorraine Daston and Gerd Gigerenzer [et al.] -- Pt. II. Homologies -- Introduction: The Value and Limitations of Homologies from Biology in the Study of Culture. 4. The Social Intelligence Hypothesis / Hans Kummer, Lorraine Daston and Gerd Gigerenzer [et al.]. 5. The Social and Biological Foundations of Human Communication / Alexandra M. Maryanski, Peter Molnar and Ullica Segerstrale [et al.] 6. Evolutionary Theory and Human Social Institutions: Psychological Foundations / Nancy W. Thornhill, Leda Cosmides and Alexandra M. Maryanski [et al.]. 7. The Place of Behavioral Ecological Anthropology in Evolutionary Social Science / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Peter J. Richerson and Nancy W. Thornhill [et al.] -- Pt. III. Analogies -- Introduction: The Value and Limitations of Analogies from Biology in the Study of Culture. 8. Units of Culture, Types of Transmission / Peter Weingart, Robert Boyd and William H. Durham [et al.]. 9. Models and Forces of Cultural Evolution / William H. Durham, Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson. 10. Are Cultural Phylogenies Possible? / Robert Boyd, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and William H. Durham [et al.]. 11. Complex Systems: Multilevel and Multiprocess Approaches / Peter M. Hejl, Raphael Falk and Hubert Hendrichs [et al.] Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-468) and indexes Subject Culture. Human beings -- Animal nature. Nature and nurture. Sociobiology. Author Weingart, Peter. LC no. 96045735 ISBN 0805821546 (alk. paper)

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