CONTENTS of The Darwinian Heritage and Sociobiology
Edited by Johan M.G. van der Dennen, David Smillie, and Daniel R. Wilson
We dedicate this volume to Jan Wind, the founding father and subsequently the secretary of
the European Sociobiological Society, who died October 39, 1995. The 1995 Cambridge
meeting was his last ESS conference
Introduction
Part I: Biological Foundations
1 Group Selection and the Selfish Gene: The Units-of-Selection Problem Revisited
Michael J.C. Waller
2 The Implications of Darwin's Variational Paradigm
David Smillie
3 Cooperative Genes: Synergy and the Bioeconomics of Evolution
Peter A. Corning
Part II: Sociobiology and Culture
4 The Sociobiology of Human Cooperation: The Interplay of Ultimate and Proximate
Causes
Peter Meyer
5 Evolution and Culture: The Missing Link
Robin Allott
6 Evolution: Implications for Epistemology and Cultural Variation
Dennis Werner
7 Culture and the Darwinian Heritage: Implications for Literary Research in the
University
John Constable
Part III: Sociobiology and Political Science
8 Marx, Darwin, and Human Nature
Lucio Ferreira Alves
9 Culture and the Evolution of the Human Mating System
Pouwel Slurink
10 Human Evolution and the Origin of War: A Darwinian Heritage
Johan M.G. van der Dennen
11 Ethnic Conflicts and Ethnic Nepotism
Tatu Vanhanen
12 Mating Patterns and Their Role in the Formation and Structure of the Abbad Tribe in
Jordan
A.J. Nabulsi
13 Darwin's Really Dangerous Idea - The Primacy of Variation
J. Philippe Rushton
Part IV: Sociobiology and the Concerns of Sociologists
14 With Whom Was Darwin Supposed to Fall in Love?
Ada Lampert
15 Grandparental Caregiving and Intergenerational Relations Reflect Reproductive
Strategies
Harald A. Euler and Barbara Weitzel
16 Marital Power Dynamics: A Darwinian Perspective
Norma J. Schell & Carol C. Weisfeld
17 Sexual Dimorphism and the Evolution of Gender Stereotypes in Man: A Sociobiological
Perspective
Marina L. Butovskaya and Alexander G. Kozintsev
Part V: Evolutionary Psychology and Psychiatry
18 Darwin and the Eighteenth-Century British Moral Tradition
Michael Bradie
19 Evolutionary Psychology: The Appropriate Disciplinary Link between Evolutionary
Theory and the Social Sciences
Charles Elworthy
20 Implications of Sexual Selection for Variation in Human Personality and Behavior
John S. Price
21 Serotonin, Dopamine, and the Evolution of Sociophysiological Neurotransmission
Daniel R. Wilson, Sean Stanton, and Sandra Wilson
22 Darwinian Analysis of the Emotion of Pride/Shame
Glenn Weisfeld
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
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