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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108706681
    Language: English
    Pages: 90 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge Elements
    Series Statement: Elements in decision theory and philosophy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Vanderschraaf, Peter, 1962 - Bargaining theory
    DDC: 302.13
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    Keywords: Entscheidungstheorie, allgemein ; Philosophy of science ; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects ; Soziale und politische Philosophie ; Spieltheorie
    Abstract: The Nash bargaining problem provides a framework for analyzing problems where parties have imperfectly aligned interests. This Element reviews the parts of bargaining theory most important in philosophical applications, and to social contract theory in particular. It discusses rational choice analyses of bargaining problems that focus on axiomatic analysis, according to which a solution of a given bargaining problem satisfies certain formal criteria, and strategic bargaining, according to which a solution results from the moves of ideally rational and knowledgeable claimants. Next, it discusses the conventionalist analyses of bargaining problems that focus on how members of a society can settle into bargaining conventions via learning and focal points. In the concluding section this Element discusses how philosophers use bargaining theory to analyze the social contract
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Motivating problems; 3. Defining the problem; 4. Solution concepts; 5. Rational choice justifications of solutions; 6. Bargaining conventions; 7. The Nash bargaining problem as a tool for analyzing the social contract; Appendix. Braithwaite ranking; Bibliography.
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009052450
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 178 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Understanding life
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Race ; Human evolution
    Abstract: The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As this book shows, however, none of those biological variations can be understood in terms of discrete races, which do not actually exist as definable entities. Starting with a consideration of evolution and the mechanisms of diversification in nature, this book moves to an examination of attitudes to human variation throughout history, showing that it was only with the advent of slavery that considerations of human variation became politicized. It then embarks on a consideration of how racial classifications have been applied to genomic studies, demonstrating how individualized genomics is a much more effective approach to clinical treatments. It also shows how racial stratification does nothing to help us understand the phenomenon of human variation, at either the genomic or physical levels.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781316519103
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 308 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge monographs on applied and computational mathematics 36
    Series Statement: Cambridge monographs on applied and computational mathematics
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    DDC: 304.601/51
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    Keywords: Population / Mathematical models ; Functions of bounded variation ; Lipschitz spaces ; Metric spaces ; Radon measures ; Biology / Mathematical models ; Populationsbiologie ; Mathematisches Modell ; Biomathematik ; Biomathematik ; Populationsbiologie ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: Structured population models are transport-type equations often applied to describe evolution of heterogeneous populations of biological cells, animals or humans, including phenomena such as crowd dynamics or pedestrian flows. This book introduces the mathematical underpinnings of these applications, providing a comprehensive analytical framework for structured population models in spaces of Radon measures. The unified approach allows for the study of transport processes on structures that are not vector spaces (such as traffic flow on graphs) and enables the analysis of the numerical algorithms used in applications. Presenting a coherent account of over a decade of research in the area, the text includes appendices outlining the necessary background material and discusses current trends in the theory, enabling graduate students to jump quickly into research
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781009004770
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 308 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge monographs on applied and computational mathematics
    Series Statement: 36
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    DDC: 304.601/51
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    Keywords: Population / Mathematical models ; Functions of bounded variation ; Lipschitz spaces ; Metric spaces ; Radon measures ; Biology / Mathematical models ; Biomathematik ; Mathematisches Modell ; Populationsbiologie ; Biomathematik ; Populationsbiologie ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: Structured population models are transport-type equations often applied to describe evolution of heterogeneous populations of biological cells, animals or humans, including phenomena such as crowd dynamics or pedestrian flows. This book introduces the mathematical underpinnings of these applications, providing a comprehensive analytical framework for structured population models in spaces of Radon measures. The unified approach allows for the study of transport processes on structures that are not vector spaces (such as traffic flow on graphs) and enables the analysis of the numerical algorithms used in applications. Presenting a coherent account of over a decade of research in the area, the text includes appendices outlining the necessary background material and discusses current trends in the theory, enabling graduate students to jump quickly into research
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511894794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 410 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Social evolution
    Abstract: How can the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours seen in nature be explained? Drawing on social evolution theory, experimental evidence and studies conducted in the field, this book outlines the fundamental principles of social evolution underlying this phenomenal richness.To succeed in the competition for resources, organisms may either 'race' to be quicker than others, 'fight' for privileged access, or 'share' their efforts and gains. The authors show how the ecology and intrinsic attributes of organisms select for each of these strategies, and how a handful of straightforward concepts explain the evolution of successful decision rules in behavioural interactions, whether among members of the same or different species. With a broad focus ranging from microorganisms to humans, this is the first book to provide students and researchers with a comprehensive account of the evolution of sociality by natural selection
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511894794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 410 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Social evolution
    Abstract: How can the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours seen in nature be explained? Drawing on social evolution theory, experimental evidence and studies conducted in the field, this book outlines the fundamental principles of social evolution underlying this phenomenal richness.To succeed in the competition for resources, organisms may either 'race' to be quicker than others, 'fight' for privileged access, or 'share' their efforts and gains. The authors show how the ecology and intrinsic attributes of organisms select for each of these strategies, and how a handful of straightforward concepts explain the evolution of successful decision rules in behavioural interactions, whether among members of the same or different species. With a broad focus ranging from microorganisms to humans, this is the first book to provide students and researchers with a comprehensive account of the evolution of sociality by natural selection
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781108476843
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 219 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 83
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology
    DDC: 599.9
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    Keywords: Physical anthropology Research ; Human evolution ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Humanbiologie ; Forschungsmethode
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781108724265
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 271 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
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    DDC: 302.231
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    Keywords: Social media ; User-generated content Social aspects ; Einführung ; Einführung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107337879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages)
    Uniform Title: Essays
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    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Naturwissenschaft ; Science / Social aspects ; Gesellschaft ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Naturwissenschaften ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Does science have limits? Where does order come from? Can we understand consciousness? Written by Nobel Laureate Leon N. Cooper, this book places pressing scientific questions in the broader context of how they relate to human experience. Widely considered to be a highly original thinker, Cooper has written and given talks on a large variety of subjects, ranging from the relationship between art and science, possible limits of science, to the relevance of the Turing test. These essays and talks have been brought together for the first time in this fascinating book, giving readers an opportunity to experience Cooper's unique perspective on a range of subjects. Tackling a diverse spectrum of topics, from the conflict of faith and science to whether understanding neural networks could lead to machines that think like humans, this book will captivate anyone interested in the interaction of science with society
    Description / Table of Contents: Part One. Science and Society: 1. Science and human experience; 2. Does science undermine our values?; 3. Can science serve mankind?; 4. Modern science and contemporary discomfort : metaphor and reality; 5. Faith and science; 6. Art and science; 7. Fraud in science; 8. Why study science? The keys to the cathedral; 9. Is evolution a theory? A modest proposal; 10. The silence of the second; 11. Introduction to Copenhagen; 12. The unpaid debt -- Part Two. Thought and Consciousness: 13. Source and limits of human intellect; 14. Neural networks; 15. Thought and mental experience : the Turing test; 16. Mind as machine : will we rubbish human experience?; 17. Memory and memories: a physicist's approach to the brain; 18. On the problem of consciousness -- Part Three. On the Nature and Limits of Science: 19. What is a good theory?; 20. Shall we deconstruct science?; 21. Visible and invisible in physical theory; 22. Experience and order; 23. The language of physics : on the role of mathematics in science; 24. The structure of space; 25. Superconductivity and other insoluble problems; 26. From gravity and light to consciousness : does science have limits?
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781139782661
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (366 Seiten)
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Print version Resilience and the Cultural Landscape
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Resilience and the cultural landscape
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Landscape changes ; Cultural landscapes ; Cultural landscapes ; Landscape changes ; Cultural landscapes ; Landscape changes ; Electronic books ; Kulturlandschaftswandel ; Landnutzung ; Landschaftsgestaltung ; Landschaftsschutz
    Abstract: "All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as distinct methods for understanding the effects of these dynamics, and the ways in which they might be adapted or managed. "--
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Resilience and the Cultural Landscape: Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Note; PART I: CONCEPTUALISING LANDSCAPES AS SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; 1 Connecting cultural landscapes to resilience; Two views on values and changes of cultural landscapes; Challenges to cultural landscapes; Globalisation of landscapes; Landscapes of agricultural intensification and expansion; Marginalised and abandoned landscapes; Landscapes of urbanisation and land consumption; Landscapes of renewable power
    Description / Table of Contents: Nature conservation landscapesMultifunctional landscapes; Local and international action for landscapes; The cultural landscapes approach; The resilience approach; Prospects for linking landscape and resilience research; Note; References; 2 Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processes; Introduction; The changing cultural landscape; Changing perspectives on landscape governance; Landscape change and resilience; Landscapes as resilient social-ecological systems; The pursuit of 'good' landscape resilience; Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach?Introduction; The resilience approach to social-ecological systems; The cultural landscape concept; Similarities and differences between the two approaches; Explanation of the similarities between the two approaches; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 4 Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking; Introduction; The human as conceptualised in cultural landscape thinking
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Resilience thinking versus political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapesThe problem; Small-scale farming landscapes in eastern Africa, as seen from two perspectives; Where is the boundary of the system?; What is the nature of agrarian societies?; Different conceptualisations: different world views?; Understanding European small-scale landscapes; Esch landscapes in Drenthe, the Netherlands; Bocage in Bretagne; Summer farms in Sweden; The historical evidence; Some concluding thoughts; Acknowledgements; References
    Description / Table of Contents: PART II: ANALYSING LANDSCAPE RESILIENCE
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Connecting cultural landscapes to resilience Tobias Plieninger and Claudia Bieling; Part I. Conceptualising Landscapes and Social-Ecological Systems: 2. Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processes Paul Selman; 3. From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach? Thomas Kirchoff, Fridolin Brand and Deborah Hoheisel; 4. Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking Lesley Head; 5. System or arena? Conceptual concerns around the analysis of landscape dynamics Marie Stenseke, Regina Lindborg, Annika Dhalberg and Elin Sla;tmo; 6. Resilience thinking vs. political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapes Mats Widgren; Part II. Analysing Landscape Resilience: 7. In search of resilient behaviour: using the driving forces framework to study cultural landscapes Matthias Bürgi, Felix Kienast and Anna M. Hersperger; 8. Cultural landscapes as complex adaptive systems: the cases of northern Spain and northern Argentina Alejandro J. Rescia, Mari;a E. Pe;rez-Corona, Paula Arribas-Ureña and John W. Dover; 9. Linking path dependency and resilience for the analysis of landscape development Andreas Röhring and Ludger Gailing; 10. The sugar-cane landscape of the Caribbean islands: resilience, adaptation and transformation of the plantation social-ecological system William Found and Marta Berbe;s-Blázquez; 11. Offshore wind farming on Germany's North Sea coast: tracing regime shifts across scales Kira Gee and Benjamin Burkhard; Part III. Managing Landscapes for Resilience: 12. Collective efforts to manage cultural landscapes for resilience Katrin Prager; 13. Response strategy assessment: a tool for evaluating resilience for the management of social-ecological systems Magnus Tuvendal and Thomas Elmqvist; 14. Ecosystem services and social-ecological resilience in transhumance cultural landscapes: learning from the past, looking for a future Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Jose; A. González, Berta Marti;n-López, Ce;sar A. López and Carlos Montes; 15. The role of homegardens in strengthening social-ecological resilience: case studies from Cuba and Austria Christine Van der Stege, Brigitte Vogl-Lukasser and Christian R. Vogl; 16. Promises and pitfalls of adaptive management in resilience thinking: the lens of political ecology Bets ...
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  • 11
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139572828
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (292 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boesch, Christophe Wild cultures
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Animal behavior ; Chimpanzees -- Behavior ; Animal behavior ; Chimpanzees ; Behavior ; Electronic books ; Schimpanse ; Mensch ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us.
    Abstract: Cover -- Wild Cultures: A Comparison Between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- And the culture war started … -- Chimpanzee ethnography to uncover culture -- Cultural biases and scientific progress -- 1 Studying culture in the wild -- To study animals, all you need is love -- First steps towards chimpanzee culture -- Gombe National Park, Tanzania, May 1992 -- Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, October 1989 -- About animals, ignorance, and anthropocentrism -- Time to realize that Descartes got it wrong -- Synopsis -- 2 From human culture to wild culture -- Culture and ecology in humans -- Different approaches to culture -- Animal ethnography to expose animal cultures -- Imo, the cultural innovator -- Social transmission of cultural traits -- The paradox of studying "culture outside of culture" -- Animal cultures to learn about human cultures -- Synopsis -- 3 Shaping nature into home About material culture -- Taï Forest, December 1990 -- Tool makers in evolution -- Material culture shapes one's own world -- Technology boosts chimpanzee cultural ethnography -- Cumulative cultural evolution in chimpanzees -- When culture and environment mix -- Material culture in other species -- History of material culture: chimpanzee Stone Age -- Contribution to the cultural debate -- Synopsis -- 4 One for all and all for one About social culture -- Taï Forest, September 1976 -- Taï Forest, October 1992 -- Gombe National Park, Tanzania, April 1992 -- Hunting cultures in chimpanzees -- Cooperation: acting at the same time or acting together? -- Cooperation in high-risk situations -- Cultural altruism in chimpanzees -- Social niche construction in animals -- Contribution to the cultural debate -- Synopsis -- 5 I want to have sex with you About symbolic culture.
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9780521195331
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 727 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karte , 27 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Easley, David Networks, crowds, and markets
    DDC: 303.48/33
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    Keywords: Telecommunication Social aspects ; Information society ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: "Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks, incentives, and the aggregate behavior of groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which our decisions can have subtle consequences for others. This introductory undergraduate textbook takes an interdisciplinary look at economics, sociology, computing and information science, and applied mathematics to understand networks and behavior. It describes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of these areas, addressing fundamental questions about how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Overview; Part I. Graph Theory and Social Networks: 2. Graphs; 3. Strong and weak ties; 4. Networks in their surrounding contexts; 5. Positive and negative relationships; Part II. Game Theory: 6. Games; 7. Evolutionary game theory; 8. Modeling network traffic using game theory; 9. Auctions; Part III. Markets and Strategic Interaction in Networks: 10. Matching markets; 11. Network models of markets with intermediaries; 12. Bargaining and power in networks; Part IV. Information Networks and the World Wide Web: 13. The structure of the Web; 14. Link analysis and Web search; 15. Sponsored search markets; Part V. Network Dynamics: Population Models: 16. Information cascades; 17. Network effects; 18. Power laws and rich-get-richer phenomena; Part VI. Network Dynamics: Structural Models: 19. Cascading behavior in networks.
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  • 13
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511781360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 562 pages)
    DDC: 304.5
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    Keywords: Soziobiologie ; Sozialverhalten ; Evolution ; Ökologie ; Genetik
    Abstract: Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory.
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  • 14
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511840357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 530 pages)
    DDC: 599.93/8
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    Keywords: Humanökologie ; Hominisation
    Abstract: We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopædia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart for our Own Good makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this groundbreaking work.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 306 pages)
    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Abstract: While much has been written upon Social Darwinism, the historical impact of Darwinism upon theories of war and human aggression has been sadly neglected. This book is the first to study this discourse in depth. It challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of 'peace biology', whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world to 1919, this study throws new light upon militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511600500
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 14
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    Keywords: Methode ; Anthropometrie ; Wachstum ; Mensch
    Abstract: Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology, and is used in a wide range of applied and research contexts. In this volume, distinguished contributors including anthropologists, human biologists, physiologists, nutritionists and clinical scientists describe many of the ways in which anthropometry is used, and discuss problems associated with different methods of assessment. Topics include the measurement of growth asymmetry and variability in adult body size, measurement error and statistical issues in anthropometry and the construction and use of growth charts in growth monitoring. The use of anthropometry in assessments of body composition, physical performance and fitness is also discussed. The book will be of interest to graduates and researchers in human biology, anthropology and nutrition. It will also be useful to workers in sports medicine, ergonomics, orthopaedics and paediatrics.
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9780511565533
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages)
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    Keywords: Sociobiology ; Human behavior ; Primates / Behavior ; Social behavior in animals ; Social structure ; Behavior evolution ; Vergleichende Psychologie ; Sozialverhalten ; Schimpanse ; Mensch ; Schimpanse ; Mensch ; Sozialverhalten ; Sozialverhalten ; Vergleichende Psychologie
    Abstract: This innovative book challenges the perceived view, based largely on long observation of artificially-fed chimpanzees in Gombe and Mahale National Parks, Tanzania, of the typical social behaviour of chimpanzees as aggressive, dominance seeking, and fiercely territorial. In polar opposition, all reports from naturalistic (non-feeding) field studies are of non-aggressive chimpanzees living peacefully in non-hierarchical groups, on home ranges open to all. These reports have been ignored and downgraded by most of the scientific community. By utilising the data from these studies the author is able to construct a model of an egalitarian form of social organisation, based on a fluid role relationship of mutual dependence between many charismatic chimpanzees of both sexes and other more dependent members. This highly and necessarily positive mutual dependence system is characteristic of both (undisturbed) chimpanzees and (undisturbed) humans who live by the 'immediate-return' foraging system
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword / A. Montagu -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Methods and prefatory explanations -- Introduction methods -- Part II. The human foragers -- Part III. The changing social order -- Part IV. The behaviour of wild and provisioned groups -- Part V. The mutual dependence system -- Part VI. The egalitarian chimpanzees -- Part VII. Probabilities, possibilities and half-head whispers -- Notes -- References -- Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511629105
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 397 pages)
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    Keywords: Anthropometrie ; Wachstum ; Mensch
    Abstract: The health of a population is most accurately reflected in the rate of growth of its children. It is this theme which underlies the analysis and presentation of what is by far the largest compilation of growth data ever assembled. The first edition, published in 1976, included all known reliable recent results on height, weight, skinfolds and other body measurements from all parts of the globe. In this edition, the very numerous measurements taken between 1976 and 1988 have been included as well as the results of the large number of new studies made on rate of maturation as evinced by bone age and pubertal development stages. Many sections of the book dwell on disentangling the effects of the environment and heredity on growth, and thus answer the question of whether one universal standard suffices for all peoples of the world, or whether different populations (such as races or nations) should each have their own optimal growth standards. Written by practical people with experience of the problems in developing countries, this book explains in simple terms the different sorts of growth surveys, how to set about making them, and which sort to choose. All who are professionally concerned with child health should read it.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511529696
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages)
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    DDC: 302/.01/8
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    Keywords: Social psychology / Methodology ; Sequential analysis ; Social interaction / Statistical methods ; Interaktion ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Verhaltenswissenschaften ; Sequentialanalyse ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Sequentialanalyse ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Sequentialanalyse ; Verhaltenswissenschaften ; Interaktion ; Sequentialanalyse
    Abstract: In the observational study of social systems, the major conceptual innovation of the last century was General Systems Theory. Yet the General Systems Theory conceptions of interacting social systems were doomed to remain at the prescientific level of metaphor until a set of statistical techniques were developed and applied. These techniques have come to be known as sequential analysis. Sequential analysis has as its first objective the detection of recurring sequential patterns in a stream of coding categories describing social interaction. These techniques can be employed to study the repertoires of individuals
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621680
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 201 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 70
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology
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    DDC: 306.4/5
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    Keywords: Numerals ; Folklore ; Symbolism of numbers ; Economic anthropology ; Symbolism in folklore
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