Why Sex Matters (eBook)

A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior - Revised Edition

Bobbi S. Low (Autor)

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2015 | Revised Edition
432 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5235-2 (ISBN)

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Bobbi S. Low is professor of conservation ecology at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, where she is also a faculty associate at several centers within the Institute for Social Research. She is coauthor of An Introduction to Methods and Models in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, among other books, and is the recipient of undergraduate and graduate teaching awards.

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Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics, to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so, but that sometimes cooperation and collaboration are the most effective ways to succeed.This newly revised edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest research and reflect exciting changes in the field, including how our evolutionary past continues to affect our ecological present.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones. 21 line illus. 2 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • Adult • Aggression • Agriculture • Allele • All rights reserved • Altruism • anthropologist • Baboon • Behavior • Behavioral Ecology • biogeography • biologist • Biology • Birth Control • birth order • Bonobo • Charles Darwin • Chimpanzee • chromosome • Combatant • Commodity • common-pool resource • Competition • Competitive Behavior • Cooperation • cooperative breeding • copulation • Cost–benefit analysis • cross-cultural • Cultural Evolution • defection • Demographic Transition • Demography • Diatom • dominance hierarchy • Dredging • Ecology • elephant seal • environmental factor • ethnic group • Evolution • female • fertility • Fetus • Fitness (biology) • Fixed cost • foraging • Gamete • Gene • Gene Frequency • Genetics • Genotype • G. K. Chesterton • group selection • Gryllus pennsylvanicus • Heritability • Homosexuality, Male • Household • human behavior • Hunter-Gatherer • inclusive fitness • income • Individualism • Infant • infanticide • Infanticide (zoology) • In Specie • kin selection • Leigh Van Valen • Lemming • lethality • Life Expectancy • life history theory • Lion • Lunch • Mammal • MAN • Mantal • mate choice • Mathematical Optimization • mating • Mating system • Mating type • matrilineality • Mental rotation • Mixed Economy • monogamy • Mutualism (biology) • napoleon chagnon • Natural selection • nepotism • Nobility • Norm (social) • North America • nudity • organism • Other sex • Parental investment • pathogen • Patrilineality • Phenotype • Poisson distribution • political structure • Politics • Polyandry • polygyny • Population Growth • predation • Prediction • Prokaryote • puberty • Remarriage • Reproduction • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • Reproductive value (population genetics) • Robin Fox • senescence • Sex • Sex Ratio • Sexual Dimorphism • sexual division of labour • Sexual orientation • sexual reproduction • Sexual Selection • sibling • Sickle-cell disease • Social Complexity • Social Dynamics • Social Status • Society • Sperm • spouse • Standard cross-cultural sample • Suggestion • sustainability • Technological Change • Technological fix • Technology • tenant farmer • the selfish gene • Tom Lehrer • Trade-off • Traditional society • Uganda • Uncertainty • Ungulate • war • warfare • W. D. Hamilton • Wealth • Woman • World Population • X chromosome • XY sex-determination system • Zygote
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5235-8 / 1400852358
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5235-2 / 9781400852352