Research Catalog

Title

Law & evolutionary biology : selected essays in honor of Margaret Gruter on her 80th birthday / Lawrence A. Frolik, editor ; with Wolfgang Fikentscher and Gerti Dieker.

Publication

Portola Valley, Calif. : Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Gruter, Margaret.
• Frolik, Lawrence A.
• Fikentscher, Wolfgang, 1928-2015
• Dieker, Gerti.
• Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research.

Description

v, 369 p. : port.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Law and evolutionary biology

Subject

• Gruter, Margaret
• Law and biology
• Evolution (Biology)
• Law and sociobiology
• Law and anthropology
• Ethnological jurisprudence

Genre/Form

• Festschriften.
• Festschriften

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Primarily in English; one contribution in German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

One anthropologist's gratitude to the Gruter Institute / Paul Bohannan -- Evolutionary psychology and heuristic opportunity / Timothy H. Goldsmith -- Evolutionary theory and the limits of law / Michael T. McGuire -- How I wrote The evolution of reciprocal altruism / Robert Trivers -- No language but a cry / Kathleen Wermke -- Law, biology, sex, and politics / Kingsley R. Browne -- Mongolia: avoiding tragedy in the world's largest common / Robert D. Cooter -- Evolutionary models in law: pros and cons / E. Donald Elliott -- Law related education, moral development, and the sense of justice / Wolfgang Fikentscher -- Regulating sexual behavior; Richard Posner's Sex and reason / Robert Frank -- Biology and the undue influence doctrine / Lawrence A. Frolik -- The nature of business: bringing the insights of biologically informed behavioral science to business and the law / Oliver Goodenough -- Der evolutionären Entwicklung von Werten auf der Spur -- ein Werkstattbericht / Herbert Helmrich -- Rules of respect / Hagen Hof -- Legal procedure as a place of aggression / Raimund Jakob -- Law, emotions and behavioral biology / Owen Jones -- The correlation between psychology and law / Adelheid Kuhne and Martin Usteri -- Evolution in biology, economics and law / Michael Lehmann -- A call for consideration of human modes of behavior when promoting environmentally correct behavior by means of information and force of law / Thomas T.M. Möllers -- Epilogue: Margaret Gruter: a creative force for improvement in law / William H. Rodgers.

ISBN

0966967313 (pbk.)

OCLC

43422244

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library