ISBN:
9783319080406
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (464 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.37201
Keywords:
Communicable diseases ; Social aspects..
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Human behavior
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Builds the revolutionary theory that human evolution is subject to parasite and disease stress that shapes human qualities as personality, political tendencies and propensity toward religiosity Comprehensive coverage of the topic and its underpinnings and wide scope including value systems, mate choice, political preferences, personality, religiosity and economics The summation of years of field-defining work by Thornhill and Fincher.
Abstract:
Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Background and Overview of the Book -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Particularist Studies of the South -- 1.3 Other Particularistic-Historical Studies -- 1.4 Culture Is Acquired Strategically -- 1.5 Causes of the Particularistic-Historical Ideology -- 1.6 The Scientific Promise of Better Methods -- 1.7 The Naturalistic Fallacy -- 1.8 How Values Relate to Science -- 1.9 Accommodationism -- 1.10 Book Overview -- 1.11 Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Values, and Methodology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Philosophical Aesthetics Is Not Science -- 2.3 Biology Encompasses All Life -- 2.4 Other Reasons Why Philosophical Aesthetics Failed -- 2.4.1 Common Sense Is Biased -- 2.4.2 Intuitions Vary Because Core Values Vary -- 2.4.3 Personal Introspection Is Incomplete Analytically -- 2.5 Scientific Aesthetics -- 2.6 Categories of Ultimate Causation -- 2.7 By-products -- 2.8 Units of Selection and Altruism -- 2.9 Individually Selected Altruism -- 2.10 A Role for Parasites -- 2.11 The Ontogeny of Culture -- 2.12 Current Adaptiveness -- 2.13 Genes, Environment, and Ontogeny -- 2.14 Human Values Are Not an Objectively Delimited Category -- 2.15 Adaptationism and Special-Purpose Adaptation -- 2.16 Beauty as Truth -- 2.17 Comparative Methodology -- 2.18 A Cultural Phylogenetic Example -- 2.19 Interspecies Comparative Research -- 2.20 Opponents of Evolution Applied to Human Behavior -- 2.21 Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Immunity -- 3.3 Host-Parasite Coevolution -- 3.4 Assortative Sociality: An Aspect of the Behavioral Immune System -- 3.5 The Genesis of Cultures and Species -- 3.6 Conditional Behavioral Immunity -- 3.7 Behavioral Immunity Adaptively Manages False Positives.
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