Origins of Altruism and Cooperation

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sussman, Robert W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Cloninger, C. Robert (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Σειρά: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects ; 36
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Behavioral sciences.; Animal ecology.; Anthropology.; Life Sciences.; Behavioral Sciences.; Animal Ecology.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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).