Biocultural Evolution
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Author | : Allen Buchanan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2018-06-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190868422 |
Download The Evolution of Moral Progress Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In The Evolution of Moral Progress, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell resurrect the project of explaining moral progress. They avoid the errors of earlier attempts by drawing on a wide range of disciplines including moral and political philosophy, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, history, and sociology. Their focus is on one especially important type of moral progress: gains in inclusivity. They develop a framework to explain progress in inclusivity to also illuminate moral regression--the return to exclusivist and "tribalistic" moral beliefs and attitudes. Buchanan and Powell argue those tribalistic moral responses are not hard-wired by evolution in human nature. Rather, human beings have an evolved "adaptively plastic" capacity for both inclusion and exclusion, depending on environmental conditions. Moral progress in the dimension of inclusivity is possible, but only to the extent that human beings can create environments conducive to extending moral standing to all human beings and even to some animals. Buchanan and Powell take biological evolution seriously, but with a critical eye, while simultaneously recognizing the crucial role of culture in creating environments in which moral progress can occur. The book avoids both biological and cultural determinism. Unlike earlier theories of moral progress, their theory provides a naturalistic account that is grounded in the best empirical work, and unlike earlier theories it does not present moral progress as inevitable or as occurring in definite stages; but rather it recognizes the highly contingent and fragile character of moral improvement.
Author | : Clare L. Boulanger |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2012-04-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478608102 |
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In a writing style that will captivate those new to the subject, Boulanger presents an understanding of human biological and cultural evolution that is both scientific and humanistic, in keeping with classic anthropological ideals. The aim of this reasonably priced text is to help students think critically about what being human has been, what it is at present, and what it may be in the future. While the book focuses on the anthropological subfields of biological anthropology and archaeology, information and insights are also drawn from cultural anthropology and anthropological linguistics. Boulangers absorbing treatment, in contrast to other texts on human evolution, features an opening chapter that seeks to negotiate fairly, without defensiveness or condescension, a pathway for creationists to follow into the topic. The next three chapters provide background on the history of evolutionary science, the biology of inheritance and population change, and primatology. Chapters 5 through 9 focus on human biocultural evolution from the time of the ancestor we share with chimpanzees through the development of agriculture and the founding of states. The last chapter deals with the issue of racehow it has affected our interpretation of the past and how it continues to influence the present. In addition to an extensive glossary, the fully illustrated textbook features numerous topic-enhancing sidebars, questions for discussion and review, and student exercises.
Author | : Pandey |
Publisher | : Concept Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-08 |
Genre | : Human evolution |
ISBN | : 9788180697050 |
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Author | : Sara Stinson |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 887 |
Release | : 2012-04-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0470179643 |
Download Human Biology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This comprehensive introduction to the field of human biology covers all the major areas of the field: genetic variation, variation related to climate, infectious and non-infectious diseases, aging, growth, nutrition, and demography. Written by four expert authors working in close collaboration, this second edition has been thoroughly updated to provide undergraduate and graduate students with two new chapters: one on race and culture and their ties to human biology, and the other a concluding summary chapter highlighting the integration and intersection of the topics covered in the book.
Author | : Sara Stinson |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 787 |
Release | : 2012-03-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1118108043 |
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This comprehensive introduction to the field of human biology covers all the major areas of the field: genetic variation, variation related to climate, infectious and non-infectious diseases, aging, growth, nutrition, and demography. Written by four expert authors working in close collaboration, this second edition has been thoroughly updated to provide undergraduate and graduate students with two new chapters: one on race and culture and their ties to human biology, and the other a concluding summary chapter highlighting the integration and intersection of the topics covered in the book.
Author | : Kenneth L. Beals |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph Lopreato |
Publisher | : Unwin Hyman |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780045730179 |
Download Human Nature & Biocultural Evolution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Alan H. Goodman |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1998-10-28 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780472066063 |
Download Building a New Biocultural Synthesis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
DIVShows the potential for a reintegrated, critical, and politically relevant biocultural anthropology /div
Author | : Gary Tomlinson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2018-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022654866X |
Download Culture and the Course of Human Evolution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes from their first arrival, so quickly develop the capacities to transform their world? Gary Tomlinson’s Culture and the Course of Human Evolution is aimed at both scientists and humanists, and it makes the case that neither side alone can answer the most important questions about our origins. Tomlinson offers a new model for understanding this period in our emergence, one based on analysis of advancing human cultures in an evolution that was simultaneously cultural and biological—a biocultural evolution. He places front and center the emergence of culture and the human capacities to create it, in a fashion that expands the conceptual framework of recent evolutionary theory. His wide-ranging vision encompasses arguments on the development of music, modern technology, and metaphysics. At the heart of these developments, he shows, are transformations in our species’ particular knack for signmaking. With its innovative synthesis of humanistic and scientific ideas, this book will be an essential text.
Author | : Jonathan Marks |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520961196 |
Download Tales of the Ex-Apes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins—the study of evolution—and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates human evolution within a general anthropological framework and presents it as a special case of kinship and mythology. Tales of the Ex-Apes argues that human evolution has incorporated the emergence of social relations and cultural histories that are unprecedented in the apes and thus cannot be reduced to purely biological properties and processes. Marks shows that human evolution has involved the transformation from biological to biocultural evolution. Over tens of thousands of years, new social roles—notably spouse, father, in-laws, and grandparents—have co-evolved with new technologies and symbolic meanings to produce the human species, in the absence of significant biological evolution. We are biocultural creatures, Marks argues, fully comprehensible by recourse to neither our real ape ancestry nor our imaginary cultureless biology.