New Approach to Human Social Evolution - Persistence of Ancient Drives in Behaviour and Development

It provides an important examination into the role of evolution of human traits of dominance as central to understanding social and political events, proposing a new view on human social evolution. It examines basic biological universal needs and behavioral profiles of non-human living beings.

List of contents

FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Biological and Cultural Development of Homo Sapiens and Cultural Conditioners
CHAPTER 2: Emergence and Development of Homo sapiens
CHAPTER 3: Further insights on Homo sapiens evolution
Globalized or Segmented?
CHAPTER 4: Biological nature and cultural construction: the concept of tectonic plates
Social and cultural Darwinism, or social construction and multiple cultures?
CHAPTER 5: Brain Evolution and Environmental Interactions Reset Individual Requirements
An excerpt on tool development in Homo evolution
CHAPTER 6: Evolution and Social Inequality
Prosocial behaviour
Between reality and fiction
CHAPTER 7: Primate Behavioural Evolution: it's imprinting on Sapiens Behaviour
CHAPTER 8: Human nature in perspective
CHAPTER 9: Dominance in Evolution
Globalisation and dominance
CHAPTER 10: Long-term social impact of dominance priorities CHAPTER 11: Brief accounts of dominance episodes across history
CHAPTER 12: Menaces to Human Creativeness. Creativeness should be considered a social value
CHAPTER 13: Human bipolar drives: creativity vs. dominance
Education as a potential generator of host-parasite-like induced behaviour or conditioned behavioural profiles. An extended concept.
Concerned conclusions

About the author

Jorge A. Colombo, MD, PhD is a former Full Professor at the University of South Florida (USA) and Principal Investigator at the National Research Council (CONICET, Argentina). He is also a former fellow of several international organizations, including NIH (USA), von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), DAAD (Germany), and the British Royal Society.

Summary

It provides an important examination into the role of evolution of human traits of dominance as central to understanding social and political events, proposing a new view on human social evolution. It examines basic biological universal needs and behavioral profiles of non-human living beings.

Product details

• Authors: Jorge A. Colombo, Colombo Jorge A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032951188
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295118-8
• No. of pages: 122
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / History, PSYCHOLOGY / Evolutionary Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Animal & Comparative Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Animal behaviour, Neurosciences, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Zoology and animal sciences, Archaeological Theory