Title: Sociobiology, beyond nature/nurture? :
Authors: Barlow, George W.; Silverberg, James.; American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Date: 1980
Publisher: Published by Westview Press for the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Physical description: xxvi, 627 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: The development of sociobiology : a biologist's perspective / George W. Barlow -- Sociobiology, the new synthesis? An anthropologist's perspective / James Silverberg -- Sociobiology : another new synthesis / David L. Hull -- A critical examination of current sociobiological theory : adequacy and implications / Arthur L. Caplan -- Ecological determinism and sociobiology / Stephen T. Emlen -- The coevolution of behavioral and life-history characteristics / Robert R. Warner -- Foraging, social dispersion and mating systems / Jack W. Bradbury -- Predictive sociobiology : mate selection in damselfishes and brood defense in white-crowned sparrows / David P. Barash -- Tradition and the social transmission of behavior in animals / Danilo Mainardi -- Sociobiology and the theory of natural selection / Stephen Jay Gould -- Genetics of animal and human behavior / John C. DeFries -- A consideration of the genetic foundation of human social behavior / Edward O. Wilson -- Cultural causes of genetic change / Frank B. Livingstone -- Good strategy or evolutionarily stable strategy? / Richard Dawkins -- Kin selection and the paradox of sexuality / George C. Williams -- Genes, hormones, sex and gender / Elizabeth Kocher Adkins -- Is Yomut social behavior adaptive? / William Irons -- Social behavior, biology and the double standard / Eleanor Leacock -- Nineteenth-century evolutionary theory and male scientific bias / Stephanie A. Shields -- The limits of ground squirrel nepotism / Paul W. Sherman -- Kin-selection theory, kinship, marriage and fitness among the Ya̧nomamö Indians / Napoleon A. Chagnon -- Kin selection, fitness and cultural evolution / B.J. Williams -- Parent-offspring conflict / Judy A. Stamps and Robert A. Metcalf.
Notes: "Based on a symposium ... held at the 1978 AAAS national annual meeting in Washington, D.C., February 12-17."
Subject headings (LCSH): Sociobiology.