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The Genial Gene
Are selfishness and individuality—rather than kindness and cooperation—basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universal sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of neo-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them.
The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness
Integrates medical and evolutionary data on the role of body fat in human biology, including the current obesity epidemic.
Evolving Human Nutrition
Exploration of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives and its influence on health and disease, past and present.
Houses
With over seventeen years in print, this professional handbook has become a staple for real estate agents. In clear language, it begins with a look at communities, neighbourhoods, and sites, then delves into the details of interior and exterior house construction and styles. The topics covered include, Construction, Materials, Mechanical Systems and Architectural Systems.
Reproduction and Adaptation
In the space of one generation major changes have begun to take place in the field of human reproduction. A rapid increase in the control of fertility and the understanding and treatment of sexual health issues have been accompanied by an emerging threat to reproductive function linked to increasing environmental pollution and dramatic changes in lifestyle. Organised around four key themes, this book provides a valuable review of some of the most important recent findings in human reproductive ecology. Major topics include the impact of the environment on reproduction, the role of physical activity and energetics in regulating reproduction, sexual maturation and ovulation assessment and demographic, health and family planning issues. Both theoretical and practical issues are covered, including the evolution and importance of the menopause and the various statistical methods by which researchers can analyse characteristics of the menstrual cycle in field studies.
The Evolved Apprentice
A new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the role of information sharing across generations. Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual behavior, and foraging patterns have all shifted sharply away from those of the other great apes. In The Evolved Apprentice, Kim Sterelny argues that the divergence stems from the fact that humans gradually came to enrich the learning environment of the next generation. Humans came to cooperate in sharing information, and to cooperate ecol...
Good Natured
To observe a dog's guilty look. to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals in certain acts is to wonder what moves them. Might there he a code of ethics in the animal kingdom? Must an animal be human to he humane? In this provocative book, a renowned scientist takes on those who have declared ethics uniquely human Making a compelling case for a morality grounded in biology, he shows how ethical behavior is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait, in humans and animals alike. World famous for his brilliant descriptions of Machiavellian power plays among chimpanzees-the nastier si...
Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology
This follow-up to The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth puts methods to use in interpreting human origins and affinities.
Social Structures
Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book then investigates the role such structures have played in the emergence of the modern nation-state. Bringing together the latest findings in sociology, anthropology, political science, and history, John Levi Martin traces how sets of interpersonal relationships become ordered in different ways to form ...
What If?
In What If?: Contemplations of an Undergrad, author Christy Clarke has compiled several of her most passionate beliefs and contemplations. Beginning with a bit of insight into the author's personality and reasons for writing this book, Clarke then delves into the debate between science and religion, and offers an explanation of her own personal ontology. However, the primary focus of this book is on animal rights, consciousness, and experimentation. Arguments are made to provoke contemplation of what different areas of research have suggested about these controversial issues in hopes of arousing greater popular interest in them. Among the controversial topics it explores are: connecting anim...
