ISBN:
9780805821543
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (511 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Human By Nature : Between Biology and the Social Sciences
DDC:
304
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Representing a wide range of disciplines -- biology, sociology, anthropology, economics, human ethology, psychology, primatology, history, and philosophy of science -- the contributors to this book recently spent a complete academic year at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) discussing a plethora of new insights in reference to human cultural evolution. These scholars acted as a living experiment of ""interdisciplinarity in vivo."" The assumption of this experiment was that the scholars -- while working and residing at the ZiF -- would be united intellectually as well as so
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; HUMAN BY NATURE: Between Biology and the Social Sciences; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; PART I CONTEXTS; INTRODUCTION: BRIDGES BETWEEN BIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; 1 LOOKING BACK: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT OF PRESENT PRACTICE; 2 SHIFTING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE BIOLOGICAL AND THE SOCIAL: THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS; 3 THE WHYS AND HOWS OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY; PART II HOMOLOGIES; INTRODUCTION: THE VALUE AND LIMITATIONS OF HOMOLOGIES FROM BIOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF CULTURE; 4 THE SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE HYPOTHESIS
Description / Table of Contents:
5 THE SOCIAL AND BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION6 EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND HUMAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS: PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS; 7 THE PLACE OF BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN EVOLUTIONARY SOCIAL SCIENCE; PART III ANALOGIES; INTRODUCTION: THE VALUE AND LIMITATIONS OF ANALOGIES FROM BIOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF CULTURE; 8 UNITS OF CULTURE, TYPES OF TRANSMISSION; 9 MODELS AND FORCES OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION; 10 ARE CULTURAL PHYLOGENIES POSSIBLE?; 11 COMPLEX SYSTEMS: MULTILEVEL AND MULTIPROCESS APPROACHES; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; LIST OF AUTHORS
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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