Book ID: CBB000501595

Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour (2002)

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Laland, Kevin N. (Author)
Brown, Gillian R. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: ix + 369 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Explores some of the major scientific debates over the relationship of evolutionary theory to human behavior.


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Review Downes, Stephen M. (2005) Review of "Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 269). unapi

Essay Review Stephens, Christopher (2005) What Can Evolutionary Theory Teach Us about Human Nature?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 221-232). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rutherford, Alexandra
Zaslawski, Nicolas
Parhi, Katariina
Carr, Danielle Judith Zola
Dobroczyński, Bartłomiej
Henrich, Joseph
Journals
History of Psychology
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
History of the Human Sciences
Biology and Philosophy
Social History of Medicine
Quarterly Review of Biology
Publishers
University of Toronto Press
University of Chicago Press
Princeton University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Hill & Wang
New York University
Concepts
Behaviorism
Psychology
Genetics
Evolutionary psychology
Behavioral sciences
Evolution
People
Skinner, Burrhus Frederic
Naville, Pierre
Gallup, Gordon
Heinrich, Władysław
Arendt, Hannah
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Czechoslovakia
Poland
France
Finland
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