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The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society

Author : Dr. Rosemary Hopcroft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190299339
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society written by Dr. Rosemary Hopcroft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution, biology, and society is a catch-all phrase encompassing any scholarly work that utilizes evolutionary theory and/or biological or behavioral genetic methods in the study of the human social group, and The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society contains an much needed overview of research in the area by sociologists and other social scientists. The examined topics cover a wide variety of issues, including the origins of social solidarity; religious beliefs; sex differences; gender inequality; determinants of human happiness; the nature of social stratification and inequality and its effects; identity, status, and other group processes; race, ethnicity, and race discrimination; fertility and family processes; crime and deviance; and cultural and social change. The scholars whose work is presented in this volume come from a variety of disciplines in addition to sociology, including psychology, political science, and criminology. Yet, as the essays in this volume demonstrate, the potential of theory and methods from biology for illuminating social phenomena is clear, and sociologists stand to gain from learning more about them and using them in their own work. The theory focuses on evolution by natural selection, the primary paradigm of the biological sciences, while the methods include the statistical analyses sociologists are familiar with, as well as other methods that they may not be familiar with, such as behavioral genetic methods, methods for including genetic factors in statistical analyses, gene-wide association studies, candidate gene studies, and methods for testing levels of hormones and other biochemicals in blood and saliva and including these factors in analyses. This work will be of interest to any sociologist with an interest in exploring the interaction of biological and sociological processes. As an introduction to the field it is useful for teaching upper-level or graduate students in sociology or a related social science.

The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society

Author : Dr. Rosemary Hopcroft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190842601
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology

Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
ISBN 13 : 0195182057
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology written by Michael Ruse and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook covers the history of philosophy of biology then moves on to evolutionary theory. It continues with discussions of molecular biology and ecology, and covers biology and ethics as well as biology and religion.

Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198568304
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology written by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from over 50 experts in the field, this book provides an overview of the latest developments in evolutionary psychology. In addition to well studied areas of investigation, it also includes chapters on the philosophical underpinnings of evolutionary psychology, comparative perspectives from other species, and more.

Handbook on Evolution and Society

Author : Alexandra Maryanski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317258320
Total Pages : 981 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Evolution and Society written by Alexandra Maryanski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Handbook on Evolution and Society" brings together original chapters by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the revival of evolutionary theorizing and research in the social sciences over the last twenty-five years. Previously unpublished essays provide up-to-date, critical surveys of recent research and key debates. The contributors discuss early challenges posed by sociobiology, the rise of evolutionary psychology, the more conflicted response of evolutionary sociology to sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology. Chapters address the application and limitations of Darwinian ideas in the social sciences. Prominent authors come from a variety of disciplines in ecology, biology, primatology, psychology, sociology, and the humanities. The most comprehensive resource available, this vital collection demonstrates to scholars and students the new ways in which evolutionary approaches, ultimately derived from biology, are influencing the diverse social sciences and humanities.

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine

Author : Martin Brüne
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780198789666
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine written by Martin Brüne and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine is grounded in the natural sciences, among which biology stands out with regard to the understanding of human physiology and conditions that cause dysfunction. Ironically though, evolutionary biology is a relatively disregarded field. One reason for this omission is that evolution is deemed a slow process. Indeed, macroanatomical features of our species have changed very little in the last 300,000 years. A more detailed look, however, reveals that novel ecological contingencies, partly in relation to cultural evolution, have brought about subtle changes pertaining to metabolism and immunology, including adaptations to dietary innovations, as well as adaptations to the exposure to novel pathogens. Rapid pathogen evolution and evolution of cancer cells cause major problems for the immune system to find adequate responses. In addition, many adaptations to past ecologies have turned into risk factors for somatic disease and psychological disorder in our modern worlds (i.e. mismatch), among which epidemics of autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and obesity, as well as several forms of cancer stand out. In addition, depression, anxiety and other psychiatric conditions add to the list. The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine is a compilation of cutting edge insights into the evolutionary history of ourselves as a species, and how and why our evolved design may convey vulnerability to disease. Written in a classic textbook style emphasising physiology and pathophysiology of all major organ systems, the Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine will be valuable for students as well as scholars in the fields of medicine, biology, anthropology and psychology.

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Parenting

Author : Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190674687
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Parenting written by Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Parenting provides a comprehensive resource for work on how our evolutionary past informs current parenting roles and practices. It features chapters from leaders in the field covering state-of-the-art research. The Handbook is designed for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and professionals in psychology, anthropology, biology, sociology, and demography, as well as many other social and life science disciplines. It is the first resource of its kind that brings together empirical and theoretical contributions from scholarship at the intersection of evolutionary psychology and parenting. Each of the authors has a Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology and much of their research focuses on violence and conflict in families and romantic relationships"--

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science

Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
ISBN 13 : 0199279276
Total Pages : 1041 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science written by Philip Clayton and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of `science and religion' is exploding in popularity among both academics and the reading public. This is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the debate, written by the leading experts yet accessible to the general reader.

Theoretical Sociology

Author : Seth Abrutyn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000331504
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Sociology written by Seth Abrutyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Durkheim’s influential work a century ago, sociological theory has been among the most integrative and useful tools for social scientists across many disciplines. Sociological theory has nevertheless, due to its usefulness, expanded so very broadly that some wonder whether the concept of "general theory," or even the attempt to link middle-range theories, is still of any use. This book, a collection of top theorists reflecting on the present and future of the craft, addresses this most important question. Taking their lead from Jonathan Turner’s important recent work, and drawing on their own broad experience, Seth Abrutyn and Kevin McCaffree have organized the chapters in this book from the general, integrative and review-focused bookend chapters to more specific chapters on innovations in theory construction at the micro, meso and macro levels. Moreover, the book’s microsociological content on interpersonal violence, solidarity, identity and emotion coheres with chapters in mesosociological dynamics on class, education and networks, which in turn integrate with the chapters on inequality, justice, morality and cultural evolution found in the section on macrosociology. The distinguished contributors share a distinct commitment to the development, innovation and relevance of general sociological theory. This volume is an invaluable sourcebook for advanced students and social science faculty interested in understanding how sociological theory’s past and present are informing its future.

Cultural Evolution

Author : Tim Lewens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199674183
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Evolution written by Tim Lewens and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title exposes and evaluates a set of conceptual disputes concerning what we might mean by culture, and how we should go about accounting for it. Its particular focus is a set of evolutionary approaches to the genesis of the human capacity for culture, to subsequent cultural change, and to the ways in which genetic and cultural change interact, or 'co-evolve'. The book as a whole argues that there is little realistic hope that the social sciences might become unified around an evolutionary synthesis. Instead the defence of evolutionary approaches to culture must be more modest in scope

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology

Author : Catherine Salmon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195396693
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology written by Catherine Salmon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology focuses on the psychology behind people's familial behavior, an understanding of which can illuminate our understanding of modern, ancient, and animal families.

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Religion

Author : James R. Liddle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199397740
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Religion written by James R. Liddle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Résumé : This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs.

Not So Weird After All

Author : Rosemary L. Hopcroft
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040005926
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Not So Weird After All written by Rosemary L. Hopcroft and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to fully examine, from an evolutionary point of view, the association of social status and fertility in human societies before, during, and after the demographic transition. In most nonhuman social species, social status or relative rank in a social group is positively associated with the number of offspring, with high-status individuals typically having more offspring than low-status individuals. However, humans appear to be different. As societies have gotten richer, fertility has dipped to unprecedented lows, with some developed societies now at or below replacement fertility. Within rich societies, women in higher-income families often have fewer children than women in lower-income families. Evolutionary theory suggests that the relationship between social status and fertility is likely to be somewhat different for men and women, so it is important to examine this relationship for men and women separately. When this is done, the positive association between individual social status and fertility is often clear in less-developed, pre-transitional societies, particularly for men. Once the demographic transition begins, it is elite families, particularly the women of elite families, who lead the way in fertility decline. Post-transition, the evidence from a variety of developed societies in Europe, North America and East Asia is that high-status men (particularly men with high personal income) do have more children on average than lower-status men. The reverse is often true of women, although there is evidence that this is changing in Nordic countries. The implications of these observations for evolutionary theory are also discussed. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the social sciences with an interest in evolutionary sociology, evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary psychology, demography, and fertility.

The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation

Author : Francesca Giardini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190494093
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation written by Francesca Giardini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gossip and reputation are core processes in societies and have substantial consequences for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and markets.. Academic studies have found that gossip and reputation have the power to enforce social norms, facilitate cooperation, and act as a means of social control. The key mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and destruction of reputations in everyday life is gossip - evaluative talk about absent third parties. Reputation and gossip are inseparably intertwined, but up until now have been mostly studied in isolation. The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation fills this intellectual gap, providing an integrated understanding of the foundations of gossip and reputation, as well as outlining a potential framework for future research. Volume editors Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek bring together a diverse group of researchers to analyze gossip and reputation from different disciplines, social domains, and levels of analysis. Being the first integrated and comprehensive collection of studies on both phenomena, each of the 25 chapters explores the current research on the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of the gossip-reputation link in contexts as diverse as online markets, non-industrial societies, organizations, social networks, or schools. International in scope, the volume is organized into seven sections devoted to the exploration of a different facet of gossip and reputation. Contributions from eminent experts on gossip and reputation not only help us better understand the complex interplay between two delicate social mechanisms, but also sketch the contours of a long term research agenda by pointing to new problems and newly emerging cross-disciplinary solutions.

The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies

Author : Seth Abrutyn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000471241
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies written by Seth Abrutyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few concepts are as central to sociology as institutions. Yet, like so many sociological concepts, institutions remain vaguely defined. This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies—as structural and cultural machines for survival that make it possible to pass precious knowledge from one generation to the next, ensuring the survival of our species. The book extends this classic tradition by, first, applying advances in biological evolution, neuroscience, and primatology to explain the origins of human societies and, in particular, the first institutional sphere: kinship. The authors incorporate insights from natural sciences often marginalized in sociology, while highlighting the limitations of purely biogenetic, Darwinian explanations. Secondly, they build a vivid conceptual model of institutions and their central dynamics as the book charts the chronological evolution of kinship, polity, religion, law, and economy, discussing the biological evidence for the ubiquity of these institutions as evolutionary adaptations themselves.

Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences

Author : Thomas Heams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401790140
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences written by Thomas Heams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darwinian theory of evolution is itself evolving and this book presents the details of the core of modern Darwinism and its latest developmental directions. The authors present current scientific work addressing theoretical problems and challenges in four sections, beginning with the concepts of evolution theory, its processes of variation, heredity, selection, adaptation and function, and its patterns of character, species, descent and life. The second part of this book scrutinizes Darwinism in the philosophy of science and its usefulness in understanding ecosystems, whilst the third section deals with its application in disciplines beyond the biological sciences, including evolutionary psychology and evolutionary economics, Darwinian morality and phylolinguistics. The final section addresses anti-Darwinism, the creationist view and issues around teaching evolution in secondary schools. The reader learns how current experimental biology is opening important perspectives on the sources of variation, and thus of the very power of natural selection. This work examines numerous examples of the extension of the principle of natural selection and provides the opportunity to critically reflect on a rich theory, on the methodological rigour that presides in its extensions and exportations, and on the necessity to measure its advantages and also its limits. Scholars interested in modern Darwinism and scientific research, its concepts, research programs and controversies will find this book an excellent read, and those considering how Darwinism might evolve, how it can apply to the human sciences and other disciplines beyond its origins will find it particularly valuable. Originally produced in French (Les Mondes Darwiniens), the scope and usefulness of the book have led to the production of this English text, to reach a wider audience. This book is a milestone in the impressive penetration by Francophone scholars into the world of Darwinian science, its historiography and philosophy over the last two decades. Alex Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, Duke University Until now this useful and comprehensive handbook has only been available to francophones. Thanks to this invaluable new translation, this collection of insightful and original essays can reach the global audience it deserves. Tim Lewens, University of Cambridge

Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences

Author : Robert Wilkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191652296
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences written by Robert Wilkins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by biomedical scientists and clinicians, with the purpose of disseminating the fundamental scientific principles that underpin medicine, this new edition of the Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences provides a clear, easily digestible account of basic cell physiology and biochemistry. It also includes an investigation of the traditional pillars of medicine (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology and pharmacology) integrated in the context of each of the major systems relevant to the human body. Cross-referenced to the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, and thoroughly illustrated, it is the ideal introduction to the medical sciences for medical students and biomedical scientists, as well as a valuable refresher for junior doctors.