| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 503 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Primate behavior and human universals : exploring the gap / Peter M. Kappeler [and others] -- The deep structure of human society : primate origins and evolution / Bernard Chapais -- Conflict and bonding between the sexes / Ryne A. Palombit -- The unusual women of Mpimbwe : why sex differences in humans are not universal / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder -- Dominance, power, and politics in non-human and human primates / David P. Watts -- Human power and prestige systems / Aimée M. Plourde -- The end of the republic (human reproductive strategies) / Laura Betzig -- Intergroup aggression in primates and humans : the case for a unified theory / Margaret C. Crofoot and Richard W. Wrangham -- Why war? : motivations for fighting in the human state of nature / Azar Gat -- From grooming to giving blood : the origins of human altruism / Joan B. Silk and Robert Boyd -- Evolved irrationality? : equity and the origins of human economic behavior / Venkat Lakshminarayanan and Laurie R. Santos -- From whence the captains of our lives : ultimate and phylogenetic perspectives on emotions in humans and other primates / Daniel M.T. Fessler and Matthew Gervais -- Primate communication and human language : continuities and discontinuities / Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth -- Language, lies and lipstick : a speculative reconstruction of the African Middle Stone Age 'human revolution' / Chris Knight -- Brain and behaviour in primate evolution / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- The gap is social : human shared intentionality and culture / Michael Tomasello and Henrike Moll -- The evolution and development of human social cognition / David F. Bjorklund, Kayla Causey, and Virginia Periss -- Deceit and self-deception / Robert Trivers -- Human universals and primate symplesiomorphies : establishing the lemur baseline / Claudia Fichtel and Peter M. Kappeler -- Ape behavior and the origins of human culture / Andrew Whiten -- The coevolution of genes, innovation, and culture in human evolution / Richard McElreath -- Mind the gap : cooperative breeding and the evolution of our unique features / Carel P. van Schaik and Judith M. Burkart |
| Summary |
What makes us human? What made us become the way we are? One way to answer these questions is to identify the traits that all humans share, traits that are universal features of all human societies. Another way to do so is to ask how humans differ from other species, particularly from our closest relatives, the nonhuman primates. The contributors to this book pursue both approaches, in an effort to understand how evolution has shaped modern human behavior and societies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Social evolution.
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Social evolution in animals.
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Human behavior.
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Human evolution.
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Primates -- Behavior.
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Primates -- Evolution.
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Psychology, Comparative.
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Animal behavior.
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Psychology, Comparative
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Primates -- psychology
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Human Characteristics
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Cultural Evolution
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Social Behavior
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Behavior, Animal
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Behavior
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human behavior.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Biomédecine.
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Sciences de la vie.
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Psychology, Comparative
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Animal behavior
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Human behavior
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Human evolution
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Primates -- Behavior
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Primates -- Evolution
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Social evolution
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Social evolution in animals
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Affen
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Verhalten
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Mensch
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Sozialanthropologie
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kappeler, Peter M
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Silk, Joan B
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Göttinger Freilandtage (6th : 2007 : Göttingen, Germany)
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| ISBN |
9783642027253 |
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3642027253 |
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