ISBN:
9781441995209
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Biomedical and Life Sciences Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects 36
DDC:
171.8
Keywords:
Life sciences
;
Animal behavior
;
Animal ecology
;
Anthropology
;
Kooperatives Verhalten
;
Altruismus
;
Mensch
;
Primatologie
Abstract:
C. Robert Cloninger
Abstract:
This book is about the evolution and nature of cooperation and altruism in social-living animals, focusing especially on non-human primates and on humans. Although cooperation and altruism are often thought of as ways to attenuate competition and aggression within groups, or are related to the action of "selfish genes", there is increasing evidence that these behaviors are the result of biological mechanisms that have developed through natural selection in group-living species. This evidence leads to the conclusion that cooperative and altruistic behavior are not just by-products of
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Cooperation and Altruism; The Contents of This Book; References; Part I Cooperation, Altruism, and Human Evolution; 2 Cooperation, Altruism, and Human Evolution: Introduction Part I; 3 The Influence of Predation on Primate and Early Human Evolution: Impetus for Cooperation; 4 Born to Cooperate Altruism as Exaptation and the Evolution of Human Sociality; 5 The Phylogenesis of Human Personality: Identifying the Precursors of Cooperation, Altruism, and Well-Being; Part II Altruism and Cooperation Among Nonhuman Primates
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Cooperation and the Evolution of Social Living: Moving Beyond the Constraints and Implications of Misleading Dogma: Introduction Part II7 Primates, Niche Construction, and Social Complexity: The Roles of Social Cooperation and Altruism; 8 Collective Action and Male Affiliation in Howler Monkeys (Alouatta caraya); 9 Mechanisms of Cohesion in Black Howler Monkeys; 10 Social Plasticity and Demographic Variation in Primates; Part III Altruism and Cooperation Among Humans: The Ethnographic Evidence; 11 Altruism and Cooperation Among Humans: The Ethnographic Evidence: Introduction Part III
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Violence Reduction Among the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea And Across Humanity13 Human Nature: The Nomadic Forager Model; 14 Born to Live: Challenging Killer Myths; 15 Notes Toward a Human Nature for the Third Millennium; Part IV Neurological and Hormonal Mechanisms for Cooperation and Altruism; 16 Behavior Meets Neuroscience: Achievements, Prospects, and Complexity: Introduction Part IV; 17 The Neurobiology of Cooperation and Altruism; 18 Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Interactions in Affiliation; 19 Early Social Experience and the Ontogenesis of Emotion Regulatory Behavior in Children
Description / Table of Contents:
Part V Human Altruism and Cooperation: Needs and the Promotion of Well-Being in Modern Life20 Human Altruism and Cooperation: Needs and the Promotion of Well-Being in Modern Life: Introduction Part V; 21 Altruism as an Aspect of Relational Consciousness and How Culture Inhibits It; 22 Hope Rekindled: Well-Being, Humanism, and Education; 23 Promoting Well-Being in Health Care; 24 Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Distinction: Promotion of Transdisciplinary Research; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4419-9520-9
URL:
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