ISBN:
9812562745
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9789812775238
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9789812562746
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (lxviii, 428 p)
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ill
Edition:
Singapore World Scientific Publishing Co Electronic reproduction; System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader
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DDC:
304.5
Keywords:
Nature and nurture
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Social evolution
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Cognition and culture
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Sociobiology
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Genetic psychology
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Brain Evolution
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Sociobiology
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Nature and nurture
;
Social evolution
;
Cognition and culture
;
Genetic psychology
;
Brain Evolution
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Long considered one of the most provocative and demanding major works on human sociobiology, Genes, Mind, and Culture introduces the concept of gene-culture coevolution. It has been out of print for several years, and in this volume Lumsden and Wilson provide a much needed facsimile edition of their original work, together with a major review of progress in the discipline during the ensuing quarter century. They argue compellingly that human nature is neither arbitrary nor predetermined, and identify mechanisms that energize the upward translation from genes to culture. The authors also assess the properties of genetic evolution of mind within emergent cultural patterns. Lumsden and Wilson explore the rich and sophisticated data of developmental psychology and cognitive science in a fashion that, for the first time, aligns these disciplines with human sociobiology. The authors also draw on population genetics, cultural anthropology, and mathematical physics to set human sociobiology on a predictive base, and so trace the main steps that lead from the genes through human consciousness to culture
Abstract:
1. Introduction -- 2. The primary epigenetic rules -- 3. The secondary epigenetic rules -- 4. Gene-culture translation -- 5. The gene-culture adaptive landscape -- 6. The coevolutionary circuit -- 7. The biogeography of the mind -- 8. Gene-culture coevolution and social theory
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-415) and index
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Electronic reproduction; System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader
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