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1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. From Altruism to Sociobiology: Historical and Epistemological Summary; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. The "social Darwinism" of the 19th Century; 1.3. Reconquest of the quest: 20th Century social neo-Darwinism; 1.4. Expansion, disintegration signs and recent defections; 1.5. Missing or extra squares on the chessboard; 1.5.1. Wilson's initial epistemological traffic: sociobiology and behavioral ecology; 1.5.2. Communicating evasiveness: behavior, altruism, society, culture; 1.5.3. Cut-short dispute and perverted controversy |
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1.6. Temporary theory and permanent fantasy: will sociobiology soon be superseded?2. The Illusory Endorsement of Insects: Omissions and Arbitrary Choices; 2.1. Entomologic stronghold and the place of social insects; 2.1.1. Natural advantages of social entomology; 2.1.2. A rival society, accessible to experimentation; 2.1.3. The extent of "societies" in insects; 2.2. Organicism, superorganism and monospecific society; 2.3. The beacon built by Wilson; 2.3.1. Classification and social ranks; 2.3.2. The enumeration of social births; 2.4. Missing questions |
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2.5. Stigmergy versus haplodiploidy: a "choice of society"?2.5.1. Stigmergy: from problematic to theory; 2.5.2. Socioecological stigmergy versus sociobiological haplodiploidy; 2.6. Subsequently emerged information; 2.6.1. Thrips; 2.6.2. Aphids; 2.6.3. Termites, again; 2.7. Polyethism, polyphenism and monomania; 3. Gray Langur Society and Chimpanzee Culture; 3.1. Gray langur society shrunk to infanticide; 3.1.1. Practical and theoretical parameters of the "case"; 3.1.2. Strategic obsession and fact selection; 3.1.3. From scorned comparison to repressed anthropology |
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3.2. Culture and chimpanzees3.2.1. Bric-a-brac and difference in degrees; 3.2.2. Distinction criterion and the surprise from chimpanzees; 3.3. Non-natural selection of comparisons; 4. On the Specificity of Human Sociality; 4.1. Logic of inbreeding avoidance in non-human primates; 4.1.1. Facts; 4.1.2. Westermarck effect: difficulties in the face of simian facts; 4.1.3. Sexual avoidance as a social fact; 4.2. Logic of the incest prohibition in humans; 4.2.1. Kinship: a form of intersubjectivity specific to humans; 4.2.2. Birth is a metaphor, and also incest |
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4.2.3. Incest prohibition as a struggle for recognition4.3. Regarding sexual division of labor and food sharing; 4.3.1. Sexual division of labor as struggle for recognition; 4.3.2. Sharing and recognition; 4.3.3. Failure of sociobiological explanations; 4.4. Outline of a socioecological explanation; 4.4.1. Forgotten issue: ownership; 4.4.2. Ecological efficacy of the hunting-gathering regime; 4.4.3. Evolutionary pertinence of the hunting-gathering regime; 5. The Sociobiological Force of Inertia and Socioecology Challenges: Conclusion; 5.1. The meltdown of the debate |
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5.1.1. The disastrous confusion between the modes of discussion |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human ecology.
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human ecology.
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Human ecology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Guille-Escuret, Georges
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| ISBN |
9781119427476 |
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1119427479 |
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