Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development

✍ Scribed by Kevin B. MacDonald (auth.), Kevin B. MacDonald (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Leaves: 416
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Examines the importance of evolutionary biology for key issues in human development. Illustrates the power of socio- biological approaches in understanding developmental pheno- mena and their importance in generating new, empirically verifiable predictions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Interfaces Between Sociobiology and Developmental Psychology....Pages 3-23
Resources and Resource Acquisition During Ontogeny....Pages 24-77
Toward a Developmental Evolutionary Ecology of Humans....Pages 78-102
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
On the Evolution of Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception....Pages 103-139
Sociobiology and the Cognitive-Developmental Tradition in Moral Development Research....Pages 140-167
Cooperation, Competition, and Altruism in Human Twinships: A Sociobiological Approach....Pages 168-206
Observations on Adolescence....Pages 207-233
Psychological Development: Epigenetic Rules and Gene-Culture Coevolution....Pages 234-267
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Research in Developmental Sociobiology: Parenting and Family Behavior....Pages 271-292
Ultimate and Proximate Determinants of Child Maltreatment: Natural Selection, Ecological Instability, and Coercive Interpersonal Contingencies....Pages 293-319
Socialization in the Context of the Family: A Sociobiological Perspective....Pages 320-339
A Sociobiological Perspective on the Development of Human Reproductive Strategies....Pages 340-372
Father Involvement, Reproductive Strategies, and the Sensitive Period....Pages 373-396
Back Matter....Pages 397-405

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general

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