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Academic & Professional Books  Organismal to Molecular Biology  Ethology

Perspectives in Ethology, Volume 13

Series: Perspectives in Ethology Volume: 13
Edited By: F Tonneau and N Thompson
318 pages, Figs
Perspectives in Ethology, Volume 13
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This volume is perhaps best characterised by its interdisciplinary nature and reliance on an eclectic range of approaches. One theme that naturally emerges from the collected essays is that of causation versus analogy. Phenomena defined at multiple levels can in principle be studied in two ways - vertically and horizontally. The vertical strategy directly specifies causal relations holding between levels, whereas the horizontal approach looks for parallels between levels, seeking to isolate shared causal properties.One of the essays here stands directly for the vertical strategy, while another warns explicitly against the perils of a loose selectionist analogy among levels. Other parallels between evolution and culture are probed, calling attention to the general limits of analogy, or carefully noting the respects in which the proposed analogy is expected to break down. The other themes of economics, optimisation, and stability, when not explicitly mentioned, lurk in the background of any treatment of culture and behaviour in relation to natural selection.

Contents

Preface. Built for Speed: Pleistocene Climate Variation and the Origin of Human Culture; P.J. Richerson, R. Boyd. The Evolution of Life History, Intelligence and Diet Among Chimpanzees and Human Foragers; J.B. Lancaster, et al. Cultures as Supraorganismal Wholes; M.T. Ghiselin. Niche Construction and Gene-Culture Coevaluation: An Evolutionary Basis for the Human Sciences; F.J. Odling-Smee, K.N. Laland. Biological and Material Cultural Evolution: Are There Any Parallels? N. Eldredge. Pitfalls of Behavioral Selectionism; F. Tonneau, M.B.C. Sokolowski. Being Concrete About Culture and Cultural Evolution; W. M. Baum. Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital; N.S. Thompson, P.G. Derr. Evolutionary Models of Music: From Sexual Selection to Group Selection; S. Brown. Biology, Culture, and Religion; R.A. Hinde.

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Series: Perspectives in Ethology Volume: 13
Edited By: F Tonneau and N Thompson
318 pages, Figs
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