The trouble with human nature : health, conflict, and difference in biocultural perspective /
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| Author / Creator: | Whitaker, Elizabeth Dixon, 1962- author. |
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| Imprint: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. |
| Description: | vi, 305 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11005248 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PART I Pathways to the present; 1 Envisioning evolution: representations of humanness and causation; 2 Origin stories: the co-evolution of human anatomy and sociality; 3 Losses and gains: economic and health transitions since the Neolithic Revolution; PART II Plasticity, identity, and health; 4 Thicker than water: blood and milk in human evolution; 5 Risk and responsibility: power and danger in individualized approaches to preventive health; 6 Difference as destiny: race, sex, and culture; PART III Sex and gender.
- 7 Choosers and cheaters: the sexual/reproductive conflict hypothesis8 Hoe and plow, pig and cow: work, family, and gender stratification; 9 Tale of two-spirits: constructing gender and sexuality, aptitudes and inclinations; PART IV Conflict and violence; 10 Savage empathy: sources of competitiveness and cooperativeness, greed and generosity; 11 Why stratify? Inequality and interpersonal violence; 12 Peace and war: patterns and prevention of violent intergroup conflict; Appendix: Life expectancy rate calculations; Index.
