Title: Sociobiology, sex, and science /
Authors: Holcomb, Harmon R., 1954-
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Sociobiology; Human evolution; Social evolution; Sex; Biological Evolution; Sex
Contents: Part 1: The quest for explanatory completeness -- Chapter 1: Theories as the unit of analysis -- On assessing an emerging science -- Explanatory completeness -- Explaining sexual selection: theory and data -- Standards of evidence and human nature -- Chapter 2: Research programs as the unit of analysis -- The unfalsifiability of adaptationism -- Sexist sexual hypotheses -- Progress and reductionism -- Gene-culture programs -- Empirical and conceptual problem solving -- Part 2: Conceptual frameworks as the unit of analysis -- Chapter 3: Problem conceptualization -- The modern synthesis and the new synthesis -- The altruism problem -- The units/levels of selection problem -- Chapter 4: Domain conceptualization -- Expanding the evolutionary domain -- Morality as an evolved phenomenon -- Biological determinism and human nature -- Chapter 5: Discipline conceptualization -- Ideals of evolutionary explanation -- Evolutionary change and the life cycle -- Evolved functions -- Chapter 6: Performance conceptualization -- Evaluative perspectives -- Methodological rules and standards -- Evaluative criteria and units of analysis.