This book results from a symposium sponsored by the Program for Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The organizers of the symposium are the editors of this volume. Contributors focus on the current status of research on sociality and the evolution of behavior in nonhuman and human primates. Against the tendency of sociobiologists to emphasize the selfishness of the gene pool, the authors examine questions related to the evolution, cultural viability, and hormonal underpinnings of human sociality, and describe patterns of sociality among nonhuman primates for the light these may shed light on human social behavior.
Edited by:
Robert W. Sussman,
Audrey R. Chapman
Imprint: AldineTransaction
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 469g
ISBN: 9780202307312
ISBN 10: 020230731X
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 30 April 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
I: Introduction; 1: The Nature and Evolution of Sociality: Introduction; II: Origins of Sociality; 2: Mammalian and Primate Roots of Human Sociality; 3: Wild Justice, Cooperation, and Fair Play: Minding Manners, Being Nice, and Feeling Good; 4: Management of Aggression as a Component of Sociality; III: Mechanisms of Sociality; 5: Proximate Mechanisms Regulating Sociality and Social Monogamy, in the Context of Evolution; 6: Signals, Symbols, and Human Cooperation; 7: Darwinian Evolution by the Natural Selection of Heritable Variation: Definition of Parameters and Application to Social Behaviors; IV: Primate Sociality; 8: Rethinking Sociality: Cooperation and Aggression among Primates; 9: Sociality among Kin and Nonkin in Nonhuman Primate Groups; 10: Revisiting Conflict Resolution: Is There a Role for Emphasizing Negotiation and Cooperation Instead of Conflict and Reconciliation?; V: Evolution of Sociality; 11: Emergent Behaviors and Human Sociality; 12: Sociality and the Concept of Culture in Human Origins; 13: Large-Game Hunting and the Evolution of Human Sociality; 14: Cooperation, Commitment, and Communication in the Evolution of Human Sociality; VI: Philosophical Overview; 15: Primate Sociality and Natural Law Theory: A Case Study on the Relevance of Science for Ethics
Reviews for The Origins and Nature of Sociality
-This volume is a valuable resource for anthropologists interested in the origins of human social behavior and cooperation. This text provides a viewpoint that can potentially lead to expand interpretations for why humans have such long life spans.- --Corey S. Zolondek, Anthropology and Aging Quarterly -This timely and useful volume provides not only a reminder of the wealth of valuable information available about this genus, but also presents a tantalizing set of hypotheses, ideas, and predictions that can, perhaps in the near future, be tested on that rarest of zoological treasures: a new species from a well-studied taxon.- --William F. Zimmerman, The Quarterly Review of Biology