| Título : |
DARWINISM AND HUMAN AFFAIRS |
| Tipo de documento: |
texto impreso |
| Autores: |
ALEXANDER, RICHARD |
| Editorial: |
LONDON : PITMAN |
| Fecha de publicación: |
1979 |
| Número de páginas: |
317p. |
| Idioma : |
Inglés (eng) |
| Palabras clave: |
SOCIAL SCIENCES;SOCIOLOGY |
| Resumen: |
Content:The challenge of Darwinism:Macro-and microevolution. Darwin's comparative method. The structure of evolutionary theory. Darwin's claim of Universality. Survival of fittest what?. Population regulation, sex ratios, and senescence. Group selection. The concept of inclusive fitness. Inclusive fitness and group selection.Social reciprocity. Historical relationships between Nepotism and Reciprocity. Why live in groups?.-Natural selection and culture:Cultural inertia. Cultural change, A comparison of organic and cultural evolution. Arbitrariness in culture. The problem of individual development. Evolution and learning. The heritability problem. Superseding biological constraints of human behavior. Needless sources of controversy. The various meanings of Determinism. Cultural Determinism. The proximate mechanisms of inclusive-fitness-maximizing behavior. The Ontogeny of Nepotism. Parental behavior and the social learning model of Nepotism. Models of proximate mechanisms of Nepotism other than social learning. Social learning and individuality. Special cases of social learning:Falling in love. Effects of rapid changes in social interactions. Is Xenophobia learned?. Inclusive-fitness-maximizing and the capacity for culture. What is conscience?.-Natural selection and patterns of human sociality:The human network of Kin. Some terminological problems. An evolution approach to Kinship analysis. Classificatory aspects of Kinship systems. Biological prediction about human sociality. Some statements from Murdock that do not support evolutionary theory. Analysis of two other phenomena apparently contrary of evolutionary theory. Cousin marriage asymmetries and the avunculate. Social learning and cultural patters. Why is incest so abhorred?. Reciprocity and Nepotism:Sahlins'model. The biological distinctiveness of the human species. Biology and the long-Term patterning of human history. Evolution, law and justice:Causes of human groupings. Group-living and rules. What is justice?. Reproductive competition and law-breaking. An aside of human evolution. More on Nation-States. A note on law and magic. Science as a social enterprise. The biological basis of ethics. Right and wrong. Evolution and normative Ethics |
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