The primate origins of human nature /
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| Author / Creator: | Schaik, Carel van, author. |
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| Imprint: | Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, [2016] |
| Description: | xx, 517 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Foundations of human biology Foundations of human biology. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10491853 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Section I. Evolution, Behavior and Culture
- 1. Elements of Evolutionary Biology
- 1.1. Darwin's Argument
- 1.2. Natural Selection and Fitness
- 1.3. Adaptation
- 1.4. Evolution
- 1.5. Phylogeny and Character Reconstruction
- 1.6. Evolution as a Historical Science
- 1.7. Conclusions
- 2. Basics of Behavioral Biology
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Proximate and Ultimate Aspects of Behavior
- 2.3. Proximate Control of Behavior
- 2.4. Development of Behavior
- 2.5. Adaptive Function: Optimality or Evolutionary Stability?
- 2.6. Levels of Selection
- 2.7. Behavioral Phylogeny
- 2.8. Conclusions
- 3. Social Learning and Culture
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Social Learning
- 3.3. Cultures among Animals
- 3.4. Human Culture and Cultural Evolution
- 3.5. A Theory of Cultural Evolution
- 3.6. Conclusions
- 4. Evolution and Human Behavior
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Integrating Competing Approaches to Human Behavior
- 4.3. Testing Adaptation in Humans
- 4.4. How to Deal with Uniqueness?
- 4.5. Reconstructing our Origins
- 4.6. Conclusions and Outlook
- Section II. The History of Humans
- 5. Ancestors: Humans from a Comparative Perspective
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Our Deep History up to the Concestor
- 5.3. The (Near-) Endpoint: Foragers
- 5.4. Conclusion: The Gap
- 6. Human Evolution: A Brief Overview
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. The First Hominins: The Origins of Bipedalism
- 6.3. The Australopithecines and Early Homo
- 6.4. Homo erectus
- 6.5. Middle Pleistocene Hominins
- 6.6. Modern Humans: Homo sapiens
- 6.7. General Trends
- 6.8. Conclusions
- Section II. Subsistence and Technology
- 7. Primate Ecology
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Diet
- 7.3. Seasonality
- 7.4. Extractive Foraging and Hunting by Primates
- 7.5. Range Use
- 7.6. Conclusions
- 8. Forager Ecology and Subsistence
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Diet
- 8.3. Obtaining Food: Gathering and Hunting
- 8.4. Fluctuations in Energy Intake
- 8.5. The Sexual Division of Labor
- 8.6. Central Place Provisioning
- 8.7. Paleodiet, Exercise, and Diseases of Civilization
- 8.8. Conclusions
- 9. The Evolution of Technology
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Tool Use and Technology
- 9.3. The Evolution of Primate Tool Use
- 9.4. Nonhuman Primates and Hominins Compared
- 9.5. Conclusions
- Section IV. Sex and Sexual Selection
- 10. Sex, Sexual Selection and Sex Differences
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Sexual Reproduction
- 10.3. Sexual Selection
- 10.4. Intrasexual Selection
- 10.5. Mate Choice
- 10.6. Sex Role Equality and Reversal: Who Competes, Who Chooses?
- 10.7. Sexual Conflict
- 10.8. Sex Differences Beyond Weapons and Ornaments
- 10.9. Conclusions
- 11. Mating Systems and Sexuality in Primates
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Sexual Selection in Primates
- 11.3. Sex in Mammals: The Mating Problem
- 11.4. Features of Primate Sexuality
- 11.5. Explaining the Variation in Primate Sexuality
- 11.6. Conclusions
- 12. Human Mating Systems and Sexuality
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. The Human Mating System: Morphological and Physiological Signals
- 12.3. The Human Mating System: Ethnography and Behavior
- 12.4. Mate Choice
- 12.5. Mating Conflict in Humans
- 12.6. Gender Difference
- 12.7. Notable Sexual Behavior
- 12.8. Conclusions
- 13. Aesthetic Appreciation and Expression
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Physical Beauty
- 13.3. The Arts
- 13.4. Conclusions
- Section V. Life's Changes
- 14. Life History
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. General Patterns in Mammalian Life History
- 14.3. The Evolution of Life History
- 14.4. Life History and Behavior
- 14.5. Human Life History
- 14.6. Conclusions
- 15. Parenting and Reproductive Investment
- 15.1. Introduction
- 15.2. Parental Care
- 15.3. Biparental Care
- 15.4. Communal Breeding among Primates
- 15.5. Cooperative Breeding among Primates
- 15.6. Primate Investment Patterns: Seasonality and Life History
- 15.7. Pregnancy and Birth
- 15.8. Allocation Decisions
- 15.9. Conflicts around Reproduction
- 15.10. Conclusions
- 16. Growth and Development
- 16.1. Developmental Stages
- 16.2. Somatic Growth and Development
- 16.3. Behavioral Aspects: Bonds, Play, Skill Acquisition
- 16.4. Human Development
- 16.5. Plasticity in Development
- 16.6. Conclusions
- Section VI. Social Life
- 17. Social Life in Nonhuman Primates
- 17.1. Introduction
- 17.2. Competition and Conflict
- 17.3. Group Living and Its Function
- 17.4. How to Live in a Group?
- 17.5. Conclusions
- 18. Primate Socioeclogy
- 18.1. Socioecology
- 18.2. The Socioecological Paradigm
- 18.3. Female Sociality
- 18.4. Males and Females
- 18.5. Male Sociality
- 18.6. Social Evolution in Primates
- 18.7. Conclusions
- 19. Social Evolution in Hominins
- 19.1. Introduction
- 19.2. The Social Organization of Foragers
- 19.3. The Key Features of Human Social Organization
- 19.4. The Evolution of Human Pair Bonds
- 19.5. The Evolution of Human Social Organization
- 19.6. Human Social Evolution since the Neolithic Period
- 19.7. Changes in Historical Time
- 19.8. Human Social Life: Politics
- 19.9. Conclusions
- Section VII. Cooperation
- 20. Cooperation in Nature
- 20.1. The Challenge of Cooperation
- 20.2. The Evolution of Cooperation in Nonhuman Primates
- 20.3. The Proximate Regulation of Primate Cooperation
- 20.4. Human Cooperation in Small-scale Societies
- 20.5. Human Cooperation in Large-scale Societies
- 20.6. Conclusions
- 21. Warfare
- 21.1. Introduction
- 21.2. The Phylogeny of War: Between-group Contests among Animals
- 21.3. Human Warfare and Its Cultural Evolution
- 21.4. War as an Adaptation
- 21.5. The Proximate Control of Warfare
- 21.6. Conclusions
- 22. Morality
- 22.1. Introduction
- 22.2. Biology and Morality
- 22.3. The Biological Basis of Human Morality
- 22.4. Cultural Influences on Human Morality
- 22.5. Phylogeny and Morality
- 22.6. Philosophical Implications
- 22.7. Conclusions
- 23. Religion
- 23.1. Introduction
- 23.2. The History of Religion
- 23.3. Proximate Processes
- 23.4. The Changing Function(s) of Religion
- 23.5. Religion and Science
- 23.6. Creationism and Intelligent Design
- 23.7. Conclusions
- Section VIII. The Cognitive Animal
- 24. The Evolution of Brain Size
- 24.1. Brains and Energy Constraints
- 24.2. The Expensive Brain: Life-history Costs of Brain Size Increase
- 24.3. Explaining Variation in (Relative) Brain Size: Life-history Filters
- 24.4. Explaining the Increase in Homminin Brain Size
- 24.5. Conclusions
- 25. The Evolution of Primate Cognition
- 25.1. Introduction
- 25.2. The Cognitive Skills of Primates
- 25.3. Grade Shifts: Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
- 25.4. Cognitive Development
- 25.5. The Structure of Primate Cognition
- 25.6. The Evolution of Primate and Human Cognition
- 25.7. Conclusions
- 26. Human Language
- 26.1. Introduction
- 26.2. Animal Communication
- 26.3. Human Language
- 26.4. The Functional Uses of Language
- 26.5. The Evolutionary History of Language
- 26.6. Language Development
- 26.7. Language and Cultural Evolution
- 26.8. Language and Cognition
- 26.9. Conclusions
- Section IX. Conclusions
- 27. What Made Us Humans? A Preliminary Synthesis
- 27.1. A Mind the Gaps
- 27.2. The Ape Within Us
- 27.3. The Cooperative Breeder and Hunter in Us
- 27.4. Uniquely Human
- 27.5. Novel Expressions of Human Nature
- References
- Glossary
- Index
