Social Evolution
Author : Robert Trivers
Publisher : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Robert Trivers
Publisher : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Dustin R. Rubenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1108132634
Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology. Providing a unique perspective on the study of social evolution, this volume synthesizes the features of animal social life across the principle taxonomic groups in which sociality has evolved. The chapters explore sociality in a range of species, from ants to primates, highlighting key natural and life history data and providing a comparative view across animal societies. In establishing a single framework for a common, trait-based approach towards social synthesis, this volume will enable graduate students and investigators new to the field to systematically compare taxonomic groups and reinvigorate comparative approaches to studying animal social evolution.
Author : Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742525597
In recent years 'the New Institutionalism' has focused more on organizations in their social and cultural environments than on societal-level institutional systems. Thus, missing from these studies has been a larger sociological analysis of institutions, per se. In his newest book, leading social theorist Jonathan H. Turner offers a creative, richly grounded reinterpretation of social evolution. He ressurrects a level of analysis undertaken by earlier functionalist theorists, but with a new-found emphasis--that of discovering the larger forces driving the formation of human institutional systems. Only by exploring the larger macro-dynamics can the institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, and education be fully understood, as Turner persuasively shows in this magesterial explication of twenty millenia of human social life.
Author : Richard McElreath
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226558282
Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavioral modeling that includes both mathematics and evolutionary theory, Mathematical Models of Social Evolution aims to make the student and professional researcher in biology and the social sciences fully conversant in the language of the field. Teaching biological concepts from which models can be developed, Richard McElreath and Robert Boyd introduce readers to many of the typical mathematical tools that are used to analyze evolutionary models and end each chapter with a set of problems that draw upon these techniques. Mathematical Models of Social Evolution equips behaviorists and evolutionary biologists with the mathematical knowledge to truly understand the models on which their research depends. Ultimately, McElreath and Boyd’s goal is to impart the fundamental concepts that underlie modern biological understandings of the evolution of behavior so that readers will be able to more fully appreciate journal articles and scientific literature, and start building models of their own.
Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Robert Gregory Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807844632
The national governments of Central America were constructed between 1840 and 1900, a time when coffee was transformed from a botanical curiosity to the region's most important export. In spite of their geographic proximity, the national governments that
Author : Benjamin Kidd
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Sociology
ISBN :
Author : Shiping Tang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000039897
Tang provides a coherent and systematic exploration of social evolution as a phenomenon and as a paradigm. He critically builds on existing discussions on social evolution, while drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, the philosophy of social sciences, and evolutionary biology. Clarifying the relationship between biological evolution and social evolution, Tang lays bare the ontological and epistemological principles of the social evolutionary paradigm. He also presents operational principles and tools for deploying this paradigm to understand empirical puzzles about human society. This is a vital resource for students, practitioners, and philosophers of all social sciences.
Author : Judith Korb
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2008-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540759573
The time is ripe to investigate similarities and differences in the course of social evolution in different animals. This book brings together renowned researchers working on sociality in different animals to deal with the key questions of sociobiology. For the first time, they compile the evidence for the importance of ecological factors in the evolution of social life, ranging from invertebrate to vertebrate social systems, and evaluate its importance versus that of relatedness.
Author : Brian Skyrms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1107434289
This new edition further develops the application of evolutionary game theory to an analysis of the origins of social contracts.