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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Evolution of Violence
  name:
    name part: Shackelford, Todd K.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Hansen, Ranald D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 244 p. 7 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Our contemporary capacity for understanding and empathy suggests that people are becoming less disposed to violence. At the same time, current developments in war technologies and the popularity of blood-soaked movies and video games point to the opposite conclusion. The works of Darwin hold crucial keys to the puzzle, yet his theories--and evolutionary theory in general--are often dismissed as relics, or worse. The Evolution of Violence explores and explodes myths about evolutionary theory while restoring Darwinian concepts to modern-day relevance. In these provocative pages, violence scholars from across the disciplines elegantly argue that evolutionary perspectives, far from conflicting with current science, complement and enhance standard social theory. Compelling original essays in areas such as domestic abuse, sibling conflict, and aggression in women make the case with clarity, and the contributors' theoretical and empirical insights carry significant practical implications for violence prevention. Among the featured topics: Sexual selection and the psychology of intergroup conflict. Warfare and human nature. Evolutionary behavioral genetics of violent crime. Intimate partner violence: an evolutionary view. Evolutionary perspectives on child welfare law. An evolutionary developmental lens for understanding the causes and consequences of human aggression. Scholarly and useful for researchers and evolutionary scientists while accessible to interested laypersons, The Evolution of Violence is no simple reminder of how far we've come as a species--it points clearly to our human potential for future progress. .
  table of contents: Intimate Partner Violence in Evolutionary Perspective -- War Before Civilization – 15 Years On -- Violence in Literature: An Evolutionary Perspective -- Evolutionary Perspectives on Child Welfare Law -- Warfare and Human Nature -- Sexual Selection and the Psychology of Intergroup Conflict -- Evolutionary Behavioral Genetics of Violent Crime -- The Evolutionary Psychology of Sibling Conflict and Siblicide -- Aggression Grows Up: Looking Through an Evolutionary Developmental Lens to Understand the Causes and Consequences of Human Aggression -- Adaptation and Coherence: Evolutionary and Dynamical Perspectives on Human Violence -- Violence and Aggression in Women.
  note: edited by Todd K. Shackelford, Ranald D. Hansen.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Clinical psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychotherapy
  subject:
    topic: Counseling
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Clinical Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychotherapy and Counseling
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive Psychology
  classification: RC466.8
  classification: 616.89
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Evolutionary Psychology
  identifier: 9781461493143
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9314-3
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    record creation date: 131108
    record change date: 20151120191136.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-9314-3