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Sense and Nonsense
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Sense and Nonsense

Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
CHF75.00

Beschreibung

This book asks whether evolution can help us to understand human behaviour and explores diverse evolutionary methods and arguments. It provides a short, readable introduction to the science behind the works of Dawkins, Dennett, Wilson and Pinker. It is widely used in undergraduate courses around the world.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-958696-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum07.04.2011
Seiten288 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 154 mm, Höhe 231 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht433 g
Artikel-Nr.7535234
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.20463116
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Autor

Kevin N. Laland is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews. His research encompasses a range of topics related to animal behaviour and evolution, particularly social learning, gene-culture coevolution, and niche construction. He has published 6 books and over 160 articles on these topics and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also a former President of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association.Gillian R. Brown is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on sex differences in the behaviour of mammals, which she studies from neuroendocrine, developmental and evolutionary perspectives. She has published over 40 articles on sex differences, covering topics such as adaptive birth sex ratios, sex differences in infant and adolescent behaviour, parental investment and the evolution of mating strategies. She has held a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship.