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Evolution's Empress - Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women

English · Hardback

Will be released 26.02.2013

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Zusatztext Who should read Evolution's Empress? Unquestionably, anyone in the field of evolutionary psychology (or parellel specialties in anthropology and biology) would want to have the book. Indeed, I would go out on a limb and say that it would have to be included in the top tier of contemporary books in the field. Beyond these professionals, the book's readability makes its contents accessible to any person interested in the latest thoughts on the nature of human nature. It really is that good. Informationen zum Autor Maryanne L. Fisher, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and member of the Women and Gender Studies program at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Canada. Justin R. Garcia, M.S., Ph.D., is CTRD Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction and member of the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior and the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University, Bloomington.Rosemarie Sokol Chang, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at State University of New York at New Paltz. Klappentext Effectively dismantling misguided assumptions that women take on passive roles when it comes to survival and reproduction, Evolution's Empress addresses women as active agents within the evolutionary process. Zusammenfassung Effectively dismantling misguided assumptions that women take on passive roles when it comes to survival and reproduction, Evolution's Empress addresses women as active agents within the evolutionary process. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Overdue Dialogues: Foreword to Evolution's Empress Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Introduction Introduction to Evolution's Empress Maryanne L. Fisher, Rosemarie Sokol Chang, and Justin R. Garcia Part One: Sex Roles, Competition and Cooperation 1. Women's Intrasexual Competition for Mates Maryanne L. Fisher 2. The Tangled Web She Weaves: The Evolution of Female-female Aggression and Status-seeking Laurette Liesen 3. Getting by with a Little Help From Friends: The Importance of Social Bonds for Female Primates Liza R. Moscovice 4. A Sex-Neutral Theoretical Framework for Making Strong-Inferences about the Origins of Sex Roles Patricia Adair Gowaty Part Two: Mothers and Parenting 5. Mothers, Traditions, and the Human Strategy to Leave Descendants Kathryn Coe and Craig T. Palmer 6. Maternal Effect and Offspring Development Nicole M. Cameron and Justin R. Garcia 7. The Evolution of Flexible Parenting Lesley Newson and Peter J. Richerson 8. Human Attachment Vocalizations and the Expanding Notion of Nurture Rosemarie Sokol Chang 9. Fathers vs. Sons: Why Jocasta Matters Laura Betzig Part Three: Health and Reproduction 10. Women's Health at the Crossroads of Evolution and Epidemiology Chris Reiber 11. Fertility: Life History and Ecological Aspects Bobbi S. Low 12. Reproductive Strategies in Female Post-generative Life Johannes Johow, Eckart Voland, and Kai Willführ 13. Now or Later: Peripartum Shifts in Female Sociosexuality Michelle Escasa-Dorne, Sharon M. Young, and Peter Gray Part Four: Mating and Communication 14. Sexual Conflict in White-faced Capuchins: It's Not Whether You Win or Lose Linda Fedigan and Katharine Jack 15. The Importance of Female Choice: Evolutionary Perspectives on Constraints, Expressions, and Variations in Female Mating Strategies David Frederick, Tania Reynolds, and Brooke Scelza 16. Swept off Their Feet? Females' Strategic Mating Behavior as a Means of Supplying the Broom Christopher J. Wilbur and Lorne Campbell 17. Sex and Gender Differences in Communication Strategies Elisabeth Oberzaucher Part Five: New Disciplinary Frontiers 18. A New View of Evolutionary Psychology Using Female Priorities and Motivations Tami Meredith and Maryanne Fis...

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Authors Maryanne L. Fisher, Maryanne L. (EDT)/ Garcia Fisher, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Assisted by Rosemarie Sokol Chang (Editor), Maryanne L Fisher (Editor), Maryanne L. Fisher (Editor), Justin R Garcia (Editor), Justin R. Garcia (Editor), Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Foreword)
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 26.02.2013, delayed
 
EAN 9780199892747
ISBN 978-0-19-989274-7
No. of pages 496
Subject Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology

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