The biological bases of human behavior /
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| Author / Creator: | Pope, Geoffrey Grant. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2000. |
| Description: | xvii, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4119680 |
Table of Contents:
- Each chapter concludes with "Summary,"
- "Questions for Review,"
- "Mind and Body Experiments," and "Suggested Readings."
- 1. Goals and Foundations
- Philosophical and Scientific Approaches to the Study of Human Behavior
- Evolutionary Biology
- The Growth of Natural Selection Theory
- The Mechanism of Natural Selection
- The Modern Synthetic Theory of Evolution
- Sociobiology
- Evolutionary Biology in Time and Space
- Principals of Paleobiology
- Classification and Taxonomy
- The Species Concept in Time and Space
- The Social Sciences and Evolutionary Psychology
- A Methodology for Evolutionary Psychology
- 2. Mammals and Nonhuman Primates
- Geology and Evolution
- The Emergence of Mammals
- Interpreting the Fossil Record
- Vertebrates, Mammals, and Primates
- The Rise of Mammals
- The Primates
- Hominoids (Apes and Hominids)
- 3. Hominid Evolution
- Hominid Bipedalism
- Theories for the Rise of Bipedalism
- The Australopithecines
- The Evolution of the GenusHomo
- Neanderthals
- Anatomically ModernHomo sapiens
- The Neolithic
- The Origins of Cultural Complexity
- 4. Hunters and Gatherers and Cultural Universals
- A Brief Survey of the Characteristics of Recent Hunters and Gatherers
- Cultural Universals and Alleged Exceptions
- 5. The Triune and Bicameral Brain
- Major Debates in Attempts to Understand the Brain
- Sexual Dimorphism in the Brain
- Consciousness
- 6. Language and Communication
- Communication
- A Definition of Language
- Nonhuman Primate Experiments
- Cetaceans Studies
- The Origin of Language
- The Antiquity of Languages
- Individual Language Acquisition
- Language and Society
- Other Forms of Communication
- Music, Dancing, and Art
- Physical Touch
- 7. Sex, Reproduction, and Love
- Human Reproductive Strategy
- The Mystery of the Orgasm
- Pair Bonding and Pair Breaking
- Sociosexual Regulation of Copulation
- Homosexuality
- Rape
- Love
- Freudian Thought
- Sex and Sociobiology
- 8. Intelligence, Learning, and Memory
- IQ Tests
- Modern Scientific Studies of Intelligence
- Memory and Learning
- Interspecies Comparisons of Intelligence and Memory
- Behavioral Plasticity
- 9. Sleep and Dreams
- Body Cycles and Rhythms
- Sleep
- Dreams
- The Meaning and Function of Dreams
- 10. The Bottom Line
- The Past
- The Present
- The Future
- On Philosophers and the Infinite
- The Organic and the Superorganic- Admonitions about Rain Gods
- Table 10-1: The Bottom Line
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
