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Darwin, sex, and status : biological approaches to mind and culture / Jerome H. Barkow

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Barkow, Jerome H.
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Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 1989.
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1 online resource (453 pages)
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CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 Introduction -- Vertically Integrated Explanation -- Why Is This Book Necessary? -- Adumbration -- Evolution Will Not Be Challenged -- If No Field Is an Island Then What Are All Those Ferries For? -- Summary -- Part One. Basic Theory -- 2 Darwin and Genes -- Blind Variation and Selective Retention -- Genes and Evolution -- Levels of Evolution and Units of Selection -- Human Sociobiology -- Summary -- 3 Differing Interests: Deceit, Sex, Rivalry, Influence, and Altruism -- More about Genetic Selfishness, Reciprocal Altruism: More CalculatingSexual Selection -- Deception -- Sex and Deceit -- Deception and the Fitness Interests of Offspring -- Infanticide in Langurs as a Test Case -- Are the Four DNA Bases Really the Three Fates? -- Summary -- Part Two. Mind and Awareness -- 4 Self, Soul, Brain, Body, Mind -- The Need for a Sketch of the Intra-Individual System -- Fitting into Neurophysiology -- Self-Awareness -- Finding the Self with a Map -- Evolved Complexities of the Self: Deception and Language -- Summary -- 5 Goals, Attention, Awareness, The Intra-Individual Information-Processing SystemGoals and Subgoals, Plans and Subplans -- Codes -- Recapitulation of Goals/Plans/Codes -- Pay Attention! -- Conflicts with Mr Spock: Emotion and Rationality -- Distributed Information-Processing -- Assembling the Sketch of the Intra-Individual System -- Summary -- Part Three. Culture, Prestige, and Self-Esteem -- 6 Culture: An Introduction -- The Concept of Culture -- Culture the Creator -- Summary -- 7 Culture and the Intra-Individual System -- Review -- Culture as Information -- Goals and Plans, Codes and SubcodesSelection and the Information Components of Culture -- Ecological Constraints -- This Trichotomy Is Provisional -- Testing Hypotheses -- Summary -- 8 Relative Standing, Prestige, and Self-Esteem -- Outline of This Chapter -- Dominance and Aggression -- Neurophysiology -- The Transition from Primate Dominance to Human Self-Esteem -- Social Identity and Skill Category -- Males Selecting Females -- Self-Esteem -- Prestige and Economics -- Identity and Criteria for the Allocation of Prestige -- Dominance, Development, and Human Ethology, and Dominance, Prestige, and Reproductive SuccessUnanswered Questions -- Summary -- 9 Prestige Processes in the Context of Culture -- Dreams, Deeds, and War: Hausa and Ibo in Nigeria -- Two Moslem Men from Maradi -- An Incipient Ethnic Split -- Conclusions -- Summary -- Part Four. Alternative Approaches and Maladaptation -- 10 Other Approaches to Gene-Culture Interrelationships -- Similar Components, Different Emphases -- Emphasizing Culture -- Emphasizing Environment: Marvin Harris and Cultural Materialism -- Lumsden, Wilson, Genes, Mind, Culture
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9781442673724 (electronic bk.)
1442673729 (electronic bk.)
1282056514
9781282056510
0802068553
9780802068552
080205773X (alk. paper)
9780802057730 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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