Research Catalog

Title

Human by nature : between biology and the social sciences / Peter Weingart [and others].

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Weingart, Peter.

Description

x, 494 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Human beings > Animal nature
• Sociobiology
• Culture
• Nature and nurture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Contexts -- Introduction: Bridges Between Biology and the Social Sciences. 1. Looking Back: Historical and Theoretical Context of Present Practice / Jonathan H. Turner, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Leda Cosmides [et al.]. 2. Shifting Boundaries Between the Biological and the Social: The Social and Political Contexts / Peter Weingart, Sabine Maasen and Ullica Segerstrale. 3. The Whys and Hows of Interdisciplinarity / Sandra D. Mitchell, Lorraine Daston and Gerd Gigerenzer [et al.] -- Pt. II. Homologies -- Introduction: The Value and Limitations of Homologies from Biology in the Study of Culture. 4. The Social Intelligence Hypothesis / Hans Kummer, Lorraine Daston and Gerd Gigerenzer [et al.]. 5. The Social and Biological Foundations of Human Communication / Alexandra M. Maryanski, Peter Molnar and Ullica Segerstrale [et al.].
• 6. Evolutionary Theory and Human Social Institutions: Psychological Foundations / Nancy W. Thornhill, Leda Cosmides and Alexandra M. Maryanski [et al.]. 7. The Place of Behavioral Ecological Anthropology in Evolutionary Social Science / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Peter J. Richerson and Nancy W. Thornhill [et al.] -- Pt. III. Analogies -- Introduction: The Value and Limitations of Analogies from Biology in the Study of Culture. 8. Units of Culture, Types of Transmission / Peter Weingart, Robert Boyd and William H. Durham [et al.]. 9. Models and Forces of Cultural Evolution / William H. Durham, Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson. 10. Are Cultural Phylogenies Possible? / Robert Boyd, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and William H. Durham [et al.]. 11. Complex Systems: Multilevel and Multiprocess Approaches / Peter M. Hejl, Raphael Falk and Hubert Hendrichs [et al.].

ISBN

0805821546 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96045735

OCLC

• 35637717
• ocm35637717

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries