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1 online resource (324 pages) |
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Evolutionary Foundations of Human Behavior |
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Evolutionary foundations of human behavior.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 BIOLOGY AND THE BACKGROUND OF MORAL SYSTEMS; The Evolutionary Approach; Introduction; Sociobiology and Ideology; Meanings and Misinterpretations; Proximate Causes and the Reductionism of Evolutionary Biology; The Problem of Culture; The Problem of Resistance to Self-Understanding; Human Interests and Their Conflicts: What Lifetimes Are About; What Are Human Interests?; Life Interests as Reproductive; Lifetimes as Effort; Reproduction and Senescence: Why Lifetimes Are Finite; The Older Theories of Senescence |
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Williams' Pleiotropic Theory of SenescenceThe Nature and Extent of Pleiotropy; The General Shapes of Mortality Curves; The Effect of Mortality Rates on Senescence; Male and Female Mortality; Semelparity, Iteroparity, and Senescence; Parental Care and Offspring Replacement; The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay Effect; Summary; Reproduction and Cooperation: Special Cases; Genetic Individuality and Individuality of Interests; The Pinnacles of Ultrasociality: How They Evolved; Other Special Cases of Cooperation; Monogamy and Reproductive Opportunity Leveling |
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Conflicts of Interest and Deception in Communication2 A BIOLOGICAL VIEW OF MORALITY; Conflicts and Confluences of Interest: A Theory of Moral Systems; Conflicts of Interests; Why Do Humans Live in Groups?; Classifying Human Effort: The ""Atoms"" of Sociality; Philosophy and Conflicts of Interest; Moral Systems as Systems of Indirect Reciprocity; Where Do Rules Come From; Discriminate and Indiscriminate Beneficence; Morality and the Human Psyche; Hypotheses About the Evolution of Consciousness; Consciousness and Deception; Self-Deception; Myths and Self-Images |
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Life History Theory and the Ontogeny of Moral BehaviorIntroduction; Kohlberg's Stages, with an Evolutionary Hypothesis for Each; General Conclusions; 3 MORALITY AS SEEN BY PHILOSOPHERS AND BIOLOGISTS; Introduction; The Moral Philosophers; Rationality and Self-Interest; Misunderstandings of Reciprocity; Proximate and Ultimate Mechanisms and Self-Sacrifice; The Biologist-Philosophers; The Naturalistic Fallacy; Darwin's Group Selection Theory and Fisher's Alternative; T.H. Huxley, and Morality as Contrary to Evolution; Darwin, Keith, and Human Evolution in Groups; The Philosophers of Biology |
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Morality and LawMorality and Democracy; The Goal of Universal Beneficence; Summary; Conclusions; 4 APPLYING THE BIOLOGICAL VIEW OF MORALITY; Morality and Openness in the Pursuit of Truth: Science, Law, and God as the Models; Introduction; God and Science as Truth-Seeking; Summarizing Hypotheses; Modeling Value Systems and Maintaining Indirect Reciprocity; The Rights of Embryos and the Moribund; The Rights of Women and Men; The Rights of Children and Parents; The Perils of Error and Unrecognized Biases; Conclusions; Arms Races, Human and Otherwise |
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Human Arms Races Compared to Natural and Sexual Selection |
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Print version record |
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Bioethics.
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Bioethics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351329293 |
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1351329294 |
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