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Natural Selections : Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, And Other Realities Of Evolution

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A Darwinian Worldview : Sociobiology, Environmental Ethics And The Work Of Edward O. Wilson

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The Evolution Of Mind : Fundamental Questions And Controversies

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The Language Of The Body

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On Human Nature

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The Social Meaning Of Modern Biology : From Social Darwinism To Sociobiology

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The Things We Do : Using The Lessons Of Bernard And Darwin To Understand The What, How, And Why Of Our Behavior

  • The Things We Do : Using The Lessons Of Bernard And Darwin To Understand The What, How, And Why Of Our Behavior

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    Gary Cziko

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    Book, MIT Press, 2000

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    Approaching living organisms as purposeful systems that behave in order to control their perceptions of the external environment provides a new perspective for understanding what, why, and how living things, including humans, do what they do. Writing in an accessible style, Cziko shows how the lessons of Bernard and Darwin, updated with the best of current scientific knowledge, can provide solutions to certain long-standing theoretical and practical problems in behavioral science and enable us to develop new methods and topics for research. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HM1033 .C95 2000  AVAILABLE

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Why We Lie : The Evolutionary Roots Of Deception And The Unconscious Mind

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The Selfish Gene

  • The Selfish Gene

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    Richard Dawkins

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    Book, New ed, Oxford University Press, 1989

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    In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The other new chapter, entitled “The Long Reach of the Gene,” which reflects the arguments presented in Dawkins’ The Extended Phenotype, clarifies the startling view that genes may reach outside the bodies in which they dwell and manipulate other individuals and even the world at large. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QH437 .D38 1989  DUE 12-01-09

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The Tending Instinct : How Nurturing Is Essential For Who We Are And How We Live

  • The Tending Instinct : How Nurturing Is Essential For Who We Are And How We Live

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    Shelley E. Taylor

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    Book, 1st ed, Times Books, 2002

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    A groundbreaking work that reveals how the instinct to “tend and befriend” is vital for human society. Taylor also examines what drives women to seek each other’s company, and to tend to the young and the infirm — acts that greatly benefit the group but often at great cost to the individual. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HM628 .T38 2002  AVAILABLE

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The Triumph Of Sociobiology

  • The Triumph Of Sociobiology

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    John Alcock

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    Book, Oxford University Press, 2001

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    In The Triumph of Sociobiology, John Alcock reviews the controversy that has surrounded evolutionary studies of human social behavior following the 1975 publication of E.O. Twenty-five years after the field was named by Wilson, the approach he championed has successfully demonstrated its value in the study of animal behavior, including the behavior of our own species. In this straight-forward, objective approach to the sociobiology debate, noted animal behaviorist John Alcock illuminates how sociobiologists study behavior in all species. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  GN365.9 .A4 2001  AVAILABLE

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The Emperor’s New Clothes : Biological Theories Of Race At The Millennium

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The Adapted Mind : Evolutionary Psychology And The Generation Of Culture

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Why Sex Matters : A Darwinian Look At Human Behavior

  • Why Sex Matters : A Darwinian Look At Human Behavior

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    Bobbi S. Low

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    Book, Princeton University Press, 2000

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    Low illustrates these sexual differences among humans by showing that in places as diverse as the parishes of nineteenth-century Sweden, the villages of seventeenth-century China, and the forests of twentieth-century Brazil, men have tended to seek power and resources, from cattle to money, to attract mates, while women have sought a secure environment for raising children. She makes it clear, however, they have not done so simply through individual efforts or in a vacuum, but that men and women act in complex ways that involve cooperation and coalition building and that are shaped by culture, technology, tradition, and the availability of resources. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  GN281.4 .L68 2000  AVAILABLE

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Defenders Of The Truth : The Battle For Science In The Sociobiology Debate And Beyond

  • Defenders Of The Truth : The Battle For Science In The Sociobiology Debate And Beyond

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    Ullica Segerstråle

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    Book, Oxford University Press, 2000

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    Wilson published Sociobiology, it generated a firestorm of criticism, mostly focused on the book’s final chapter, in which Wilson applied lessons learned from animal behavior to human society. Defenders of the Truth touches on grand themes such as the unity of knowledge, human nature, and free will and determinism, and it shows how the sociobiology controversy can shed light on the more recent debates over the Human Genome Project and The Bell Curve. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HM628 .S44 2000  AVAILABLE

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