Origins of Altruism and Cooperation

This book is derived from a conference held at Washington University, March, 2009.  Authors include academics from around the world and across multiple disciplines - anthropology, psychiatry, human evolution, biology, psychology, religion, philosophy, education, and medicine - to focus on the evolut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Sussman, Robert W. (Editor ), Cloninger, C. Robert (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, 36
Temas:
Psychobiology.
Human behavior.
Anthropology.
Animal migration.
Behavioral Neuroscience.
Animal Migration.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I.  Cooperation, Altruism and Human Evolution
  • Chapter 1-Introduction: Altruism and Cooperation
  • Chapter 2. Part 1 Introduction.-Chapter 3. The Influence of Predation on Primate and Early Human Evolution: Impetus for Cooperation
  • Chapter 4. Born to cooperate? Altruism as exaptation, and the evolution of human sociality
  • Chapter 5.  The Phylogenesis of Human Personality:Identifying the Precursors of Cooperation, Altruism, and Well-Being
  • Part II.  Altruism and Cooperation Among Non-human Primates
  • Chapter 6. Cooperation and the Evolution of Social Living: Moving Beyond the Constraints andImplications of Misleading Dogma: Introduction Section II
  • Chapter 7. Primates, Niche Construction, and Social Complexity: The Roles of Social Cooperation and Altruism
  • Chapter 8. Collective Action and Male Affiliation in Howler Monkeys (Alouatta caraya)
  • Chapter 9. Mechanisms of Cohesion in Black Howler Monkeys
  • Chapter 10. Social Plasticity and Demographic Variation in Primates
  • Part III.   Altruism and Cooperation Among Humans: The Ethnographic Evidence
  • Chapter 11.  Altruism and Cooperation Among Humans: The Ethnographic Evidence: Introduction
  • Chapter 12. Violence Reduction among the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea - and Across Humanity
  • Chapter 13. Human Nature: The Nomadic Forager Model
  • Chapter 14. Born to Live: Challenging Killer Myths
  • Chapter 15. Notes toward a human nature for the third Millennium
  • Part IV.  Neurological and hormonal mechanisms for cooperation and altruism
  • Chapter 16. Behavior meets Neuroscience: Achievements, Prospects, and Complexity: Introduction to Section 4
  • Chapter 17. The Neurobiology of Cooperation and Altruism
  • Chapter 18. Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Interactions in Affiliation
  • Chapter 19. Early Social Experience and the Ontogenesis of Emotion Regulatory Behavior in Children
  • Part V.  Human Altruism and Cooperation: Needs and the Promotion of Well-being in Modern Life
  • Chapter 20: Introduction
  • Chapter 21. Altruism as an Aspect of Relational Consciousness and how Culture inhibits it
  • Chapter 22. Hope Rekindled: Well-Being, Humanism, and Education
  • Chapter 23. Promoting Well-Being in Health Care
  • Chapter 24. Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Distinction: Promotion of Transdisciplinary Research (Overview of the Institute of Medicine Report on Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment).

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