Sense and Nonsense
Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour
This book asks whether evolution can help us to understand human behaviour and explores diverse evolutionary methods and arguments. It provides a short, readable introduction to the science behind the works of Dawkins, Dennett, Wilson and Pinker. It is widely used in undergraduate courses around the world.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Brown, Gillian (Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, UK)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958696-7
- EAN: 9780199586967
- Produktnummer: 20463116
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.6 cm 440 g
- Auflage: 2 Revised edition
- Gewicht: 440
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Kevin N. Laland is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews. His research encompasses a range of topics related to animal behaviour and evolution, particularly social learning, gene-culture coevolution, and niche construction. He has published 6 books and over 160 articles on these topics and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also a former President of the European Human Behaviour and EvolutionAssociation.Gillian R. Brown is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on sex differences in the behaviour of mammals, which she studies from neuroendocrine, developmental and evolutionary perspectives. She has published over 40 articles on sex differences, covering topics such as adaptive birth sex ratios, sex differences in infant and adolescent behaviour, parental investment and the evolution of mating strategies. She has held a Wellcome Trust CareerDevelopment Fellowship.
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