The Evolution of Violence, Todd K. Shackelford; Ranald D. Hansen
Автор: Smit, Harry Название: Social evolution of human nature ISBN: 1107697557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107697553 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current explanations misguidedly use variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind. The author shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin`s theory provides us with far more interesting answers.
Автор: David C. Geary Название: Evolution of Vulnerability ISBN: 0128015624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780128015629 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 7409.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Biologists have known for decades that many traits involved in competition for mates or other resources and that influence mate choice are exaggerated, and their expression is influenced by the individuals' ability to tolerate a variety of environmental and social stressors. Evolution of Vulnerability applies this concept of heightened sensitivity to humans for a host of physical, social, psychological, cognitive, and brain traits. By reframing the issue entirely, renowned evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary demonstrates this principle can be used to identify children, adolescents, or populations at risk for poor long-term outcomes and identify specific traits in each sex and at different points in development that are most easily disrupted by exposure to stressors.
Evolution of Vulnerability begins by reviewing the expansive literature on traits predicted to show sex-specific sensitivity to environmental and social stressors, and details the implications for better assessing and understanding the consequences of exposure to these stressors. Next, the book reviews sexual selection--mate competition and choice--and the mechanisms involved in the evolution of condition dependent traits and the stressors that can undermine their development and expression, such as poor early nutrition and health, parasites, social stress, and exposure to man-made toxins. Then it reviews condition dependent traits (physical, behavioral, cognitive, and brain) in birds, fish, insects, and mammals to demonstrate the ubiquity of these traits in nature. The focus then turns to humans and covers sex-specific vulnerabilities in children and adults for physical traits, social behavior, psychological wellbeing, and brain and cognitive traits. The sensitivity of these traits is related to exposure to parasites, poor nutrition, social maltreatment, environmental toxins, chemotherapy, and Alzheimer's disease, among others. The book concludes with an implications chapter that outlines how to better assess vulnerabilities in children and adults and how to more fully understand how, why, and when in development some types of environmental and social stressors are particularly harmful to humans.
Автор: Narvaez Darcia, Braungart-Rieker Julia M., Miller-Graff Laura E. Название: Contexts for Young Child Flourishing: Evolution, Family, and Society ISBN: 0190237791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190237790 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12038.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contexts for Young Child Flourishing uses an evolutionary systems framing to address the conditions and contexts for child development and thriving. Contributors focus on flourishing-optimizing individual (physiological, psychological, emotional) and communal (social, community) functioning.
Автор: Marco Pina; Nathalie Gontier Название: The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates ISBN: 3319026682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319026688 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27950.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How did social communication evolve in primates? In this volume, primatologists, linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of science systematically analyze how their specific disciplines demarcate the research questions and methodologies involved in the study of the evolutionary origins of social communication in primates in general and in humans in particular. In the first part of the book, historians and philosophers of science address how the epistemological frameworks associated with primate communication and language evolution studies have changed over time and how these conceptual changes affect our current studies on the subject matter. In the second part, scholars provide cutting-edge insights into the various means through which primates communicate socially in both natural and experimental settings. They examine the behavioral building blocks by which primates communicate and they analyze what the cognitive requirements are for displaying communicative acts. Chapters highlight cross-fostering and language experiments with primates, primate mother-infant communication, the display of emotions and expressions, manual gestures and vocal signals, joint attention, intentionality and theory of mind. The primary focus of the third part is on how these various types of communicative behavior possibly evolved and how they can be understood as evolutionary precursors to human language. Leading scholars analyze how both manual and vocal gestures gave way to mimetic and imitational protolanguage and how the latter possibly transitioned into human language. In the final part, we turn to the hominin lineage, and anthropologists, archeologists and linguists investigate what the necessary neurocognitive, anatomical and behavioral features are in order for human language to evolve and how language differs from other forms of primate communication.
Автор: Walker, Michael J. Manrique, Hector M. Название: Early evolution of human memory ISBN: 3319644467 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319644462 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7685.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process.
Описание: This book analyses intention recognition, an important ability that helps agents predict others` behavior, in its artificial intelligence and evolutionary computational modeling aspects. It also proposes a novel intention recognition method.
Автор: Previc Название: The Dopaminergic Mind in Human Evolution and History ISBN: 0521360897 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521360890 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6811.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Dopamine is the most widely studied of all neurotransmitters in the human brain. In this text, Fred Previc puts forth a provocative evolutionary theory, positing that high levels of dopamine account for all major aspects of uniquely human behaviour, including abstract intelligence, creativity, exploration, religious behaviour and left-hemispheric thought.
Автор: Todd K. Shackelford; Virgil Zeigler-Hill Название: The Evolution of Psychopathology ISBN: 3319605755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319605753 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Evolutionary Foundations of Psychiatric Compared to Non-Psychiatric Disorders.- Taking People As They Are: Evolutionary Psychopathology, Uncomplicated Depression, and the Distinction between Normal and Disordered Sadness.- Depression: Is Rumination Really Adaptive?.- The Evolution of Social Anxiety.- Jealousy, Infidelity, and the Difficulty of Diagnosing Pathology: A CBT Approach to Coping with Sexual Betrayal and the Green-Eyed Monster.-
Автор: Gerhard Roth Название: The Long Evolution of Brains and Minds ISBN: 9400796064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400796065 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The main topic of the book is a reconstruction of the evolution of nervous systems and brains as well as of mental-cognitive abilities, in short “intelligence” from simplest organisms to humans. It investigates to which extent the two are correlated. One central topic is the alleged uniqueness of the human brain and human intelligence and mind. It is discussed which neural features make certain animals and humans intelligent and creative: Is it absolute or relative brain size or the size of “intelligence centers” inside the brains, the number of nerve cells inside the brain in total or in such “intelligence centers” decisive for the degree of intelligence, of mind and eventually consciousness? And which are the driving forces behind these processes? Finally, it is asked what all this means for the classical problem of mind-brain relationship and for a naturalistic theory of mind.
Автор: M. Archibald Название: The Evolution of Self-Help ISBN: 1349369888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349369881 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10760.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories. He explores the ways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson`s or alcoholism became the common solution for all manner of medical, behavioural, and psychological problems.
Автор: Tetel Andresen Название: Linguistics and Evolution ISBN: 1107042240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107042247 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11405.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Evolutionary linguistics has rapidly developed in recent years. Informed by the latest findings in evolutionary theory, this book sets language within the context of human biology and development by taking ideas from fields such as psychology, neurology, biology, anthropology, genetics and cognitive science.
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