1: Sense and nonsense
2: A history of evolution and human behaviour
3: Human sociobiology
4: Human behavioural ecology
5: Evolutionary psychology
6: Cultural evolution
7: Gene-culture coevolution
8: Comparing and integrating approaches
Further Reading
References
Kevin N. Laland is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary
Biology at the University of St Andrews. His research encompasses a
range of topics related to animal behaviour and evolution,
particularly social learning, gene-culture coevolution, and niche
construction. He has published 6 books and over 160 articles on
these topics and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh. He is also a former President of the European Human
Behaviour and
Evolution Association.
Gillian R. Brown is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the
University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on sex differences
in the behaviour of mammals, which she studies from neuroendocrine,
developmental and evolutionary perspectives. She has published over
40 articles on sex differences, covering topics such as adaptive
birth sex ratios, sex differences in infant and adolescent
behaviour, parental investment and the evolution of mating
strategies. She has held a Wellcome Trust Career
Development Fellowship.
`This is a superb book.'
Johan Bolhuis, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
`Lucid and balanced, 'Sense and Nonsense' will hopefully reach a
broad audience.'
Sarah Hrdy
`This is a remarkable book: succinct informative and very sensible.
It strips away the polemic to map a way forward, and is worth
reading by anybody interested in how best to analyse human
behaviour.'
Paul Harvey, T.H.E.S
`Laland and Brown are superb pilots for these treacherous waters.
It is an altogether excellent book.'
Patrick Bateson
`A 'must read' for my undergraduate courses for the foreseeable
future.'
Henry Plotkin
`I recommend that everyone with some influence or interest in
popular culture read this book.'
Mark Pagel, New Scientist
`A welcome and incisive corrective to the disarray within
evolutionary social theory.'
Herbert Gintis, Human Nature Review
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