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A paper exploring the idea that cultural evolution is a manifestation of biological evolution.
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THE PYTHAGOREAN PERSPECTIVE: The Arts and Sociobiology But each can also be seen as a manifestation of a human biological drive, a drive towards exploration, experimentation, and the analysis of human perception. Culture is not something separate from human evolution but a part of a continuing human...Tables of contents and article abstracts from this Springer-Verlag journal. Complete article texts are available in PDF format to print subscribers.
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Research group studying animal learning, memory, and decision-making, using experimental psychology and evolutionary biology as tools. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
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Behavioural Ecology Research Group ...Explains major concepts of Sociobiology, including Ethology, Evolution, Attraction, Sexual Dimorphism, Imprinting, Kin Selection, Reciprocal Altruism, and Dominance Hierarchies. Contrasts the roles of Sociobiology and Culture.
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Sociobiology Darwin came out with his theory of evolution, people including Darwin himself have been speculating on how our social behaviors (and feelings, attitudes, and so on) might also be affected by evolution. After all, if the way our bodies look...Tom Bethell speculates on what future generations will make of the controversy surrounding human sociobiology.
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FT January 2001: Against Sociobiology Discussion groups led by readers of FIRST THINGS RSS Against Sociobiology Tom Bethell Copyright (c) 2001 First Things 109 (January 2001 18-24. To future generations, the Sociobiology Wars may come as something of a puzzle. The shared beliefs of the...The Purpose of Life is summarised. This is a book on the philosophy of values and ethics from a viewpoint of evolution or sociobiology.
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Woodhill Publishing: Purpose of Life, a book on philosophy ethics evolution Cameron makes the ambitious claim to have solved the problem, for the first time providing objective answers to questions of values and ethics. Statements about value, purpose or morality are fundamentally different from statements about fact and scientific attempts to...Essays, papers, lectures and reviews on Darwinism, evolutionary psychology, race, philosophy and history. Also extracts from Kenan Malik's books 'Man, Beast and Zombie' and 'What is it to be Human?'.
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Kenan Malik's home page This is an archive of my work, including books, radio tv broadcasts, essays, reviews, academic papers, lectures, interviews and debates. There is also a short cv, a search engine and a site map. You can click to see in the...Archives of mailing list "Discussing the Evolutionary Approach to Human Development."
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Archives of SOCIOBIO@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU Archives of SOCIOBIO@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU Archives of SOCIOBIO@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU Discussing the Evolutionary Approach to Human Development Search the archives Post to the list Join or leave the list (or change settings) Manage the list (list owners only) February 2004 March 2003 August 2002...A brief historical perspective from Southern Arkansas University.
http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/...Weiten/C1Intro/Sociobiology.html
Biologist Paul Gross on the relationship between sociobiology and recent scandals in anthropology.
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Exorcising sociobiology by Paul R. Gross Exorcising sociobiology by Paul R. Gross Click to buy the book. Innocents imagine that universities, the names of many of whose departments include 147;science” as in social science do not perform exorcisms. That is a mistake. Today, universities are among...Online paper by Jody Hey,Department of Genetics, Rutgers University.
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A reduction of Species Introduction The species problem is the persistent biological and philosophical debate on the meaning of the word species and the methods of species identification. With a meaning of species that follows from a simple model of DNA replication, species are shown...A useful bibliography.
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Sociobiology: Human Behavior and Evolution This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for the application sociobiological principles in anthropology. Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective by Lee Cronk, Napoleon Chagnon, William Irons (Editors) 2000 Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolutionby...Text, figures, and learning exercises in human behavioral genetics
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HGSS: Human Genetics for the Social Sciences Practice tests and quizzes (multiple choice and fill in the blank) Extra Stuff Links to Genetic Web Resources Note: This web site is still under development. It is best to link/bookmark to this page and then follow the links on...Chapter one of the book by Richard Wrangham and Dale Petersen.
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WashingtonPost.com: Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence You will be killed the man at the Burundian embassy in Kampala said, in a bizarrely cheerful voice, as he stamped our visas. But killing was the reason we were in Africa. Dale Peterson and I were exploring the deep...Dr. Richard J. Blackwell Department of Philosophy St. Louis University. This paper was presented at the ITEST Conference on The State of the Art in March, 1980. Dr. Blackwell is well versed in the philosophy of science and has written many papers on various aspects of that field.
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This paper was presented at the ITEST Conference on The State of the Art in March, 1980. Dr. Blackwell is well versed in the philosophy of science and has written many papers on various aspects of that field In 1971...Research and teaching in animal and human behavior by Dr. Paul J. Watson, University of New Mexico and Flathead Lake Biological, Montana. Field courses, graduate and independent study student supervision, and workshops.
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Animal and Human Behavior Paul J. Watson PAUL J. WATSON Research Assistant Professor Behavioral Ecology and Evolutionary Psychology Department of Biology, Castetter Hall University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-1091, USA Tel 505) 277-2515; Fax 505) 277-0304 pwatson@unm.edu UPCOMING COURSES The Evolution of Female Sexuality Evolutionary Problems:...Photographer Peter Menzel posed the Natomos, the Cavens and five other "statistically average" families with the food they eat in a week.
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What's for Dinner? Click here to buy this book. What's for Dinner? Members of the Natomo family in the North African nation of Mali arise well before sunrise, lighting a fire and beginning an hour-and-a-half-long breakfast ritual, a process that often involves winnowing...Obituary for the evolutionary biologist who explained how selfish genes could produce altruism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac...999&pg=/et/00/3/11/ebhami11.html
Michael Mills examines the claim that digit ratio allows us infer whether an individual is likely to have homosexual inclinations, be highly fertile, may eventually suffer from a heart attack or breast cancer, have musical aptitude or sporting prowess, and a surprisingly long list of other characteristics.
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Michael E. Mills reviews Digit Ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior and Health by John T. Manning Send a response to this article Search the web for related items Contact the Editors Human Nature Review 2002 Volume 2: 418-423 (9 October) URL of this document http human-nature.com/nibbs/02/manning.html Book Review Digit Ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior and...Short biography of Lorenz focuses on his research into innate animal behavior and his book "On Aggression."
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Lorenz, Konrad German army who spent four years in a Russian prisoner of war camp, became famous for his work in the field of ethology. For a time he headed the Institute of Comparative Ethology at Altenberg, but he went on to...Includes links to research papers, web sites, and other reference sources.
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Great Ideas in Personality--Evolutionary Psychology Evolutionary psychology is an evolutionary approach to human nature. Attachment Theory is also grounded in certain evolutionary ideas, and Behavior Genetics is a field concerned with that all-important evolutionary mechanism, the gene. Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology One author summed up...Zoologist/anthropologist studying the evolutionary origins of human behavior.
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Desmond Morris Information Page Morris has been active in several areas For reference information please go to one of the following sections: BIOGRAPHY RESEARCH ARTICLES NEWS BOOKS ART TELEVISION WEB AUTHOR: DAVID WILLIAMS Receive email when this page changes Powered by NetMind PHP www.desmond-morris.com...Article from International Wildlife Magazine discusses exaggerated ornamentation as an indicator of reproductive fitness.
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NWF International Wildlife Magazine Ornamentation Sure those fancy feathers drive her wild, but are they worth the trouble? PEACOCKS TAILS have long baffled evolutionary biology. Clearly pea hens love them--the bigger and brighter, the better. But it's hard to figure what possible advantage these eye-catching...Original scientific papers on the subject.
http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/view/subjects/bio-socio.html