No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Sociobiology and the problem of culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
Abstract
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
- Type
- Open Peer Commentary
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987
References
Alexander, R. (1974) The evolution of social behavior. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 5:325–33. [EAS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Alexander, R. (1979) Darwinism and human affairs. University of Washington Press. [arPK]Google Scholar
Axelrod, R. & Hamilton, W. D. (1981) The evolution of cooperation. Science 211:1390–96. [aPK]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bantle, J. A. & Hahn, W. E. (1976) Complexity and characterization of polyadenylated RNA in the mouse brain. Cell 8:139–50. [PSC]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Barkow, J. H. & Burley, N. (1980) Human fertility, evolutionary biology, and the demographic transition. Ethology and Sociobiology 1:163–80. [PKS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bateson, P. (1982) Behavioural development and the evolutionary process. In: Current problems in sociobiology, ed. King's College Sociobiology Group. Cambridge University Press. [rPK]Google Scholar
Bateson, P. (1983a) Optimal outbreeding. In: Mate choice, ed. Bateson, P.. Cambridge University Press. [PB]Google Scholar
Bateson, P. (1983b) Rules for changing the rules. In: Evolution from molecules to men, ed. Bendall, D. S.. Cambridge University Press. [rPK, PB]Google Scholar
Bateson, P. (1986) Sociobiology and human politics. In: Science and beyond, ed. Rose, S. & Appignanesi, L.. Blackwell. [PB]Google Scholar
Beall, C. M. & Goldstein, M. C. (1981) Tibetan fraternal polyandry: A test of a sociobiological theory. American Anthropologist 83:5–12. [PKS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beatty, J. (1985) The hardening of the synthesis. In: PSA 1984, ed. Asquith, P. & Kitcher, P.. Philosophy of Science Association. [PTS]Google Scholar
Becker, G. (1976) The economic approach to human behavior. University of Chicago Press. [AR]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beckwilh, B. (1984). He-Man, She-Woman: Playboy and Cosmo groove on genes. In: Biology as destiny: Scientific fact or social bias? Science for the People Sociobiology Study Group. [AF]Google Scholar
Bengtsson, B. (1978). Avoiding inbreeding: At what cost? Journal of Theoretical Biology 73:439–44. [aPK]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bernds, W. & Barash, D. (1979) Early termination of parental investment in mammals, including humans. In: Evolutionary biology and human social behavior: An anthropological perspective, ed. Chagnon, N. & Irons, W.. Duxbury. [aPK]Google Scholar
Bernstein, I. S. (1981) Dominance: The baby and the bathwater. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4:419–57. [ISB, rPK]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bledsoe, C. (1980). Women and marriage among the Kpelle. Stanford University Press. [PD]Google Scholar
Boyd, R. & Richerson, P. J. (1985) Culture and the evolutionary process. University of Chicago Press. [rPK, JD, HCP, EAS]Google Scholar
Burian, R. M. (1983) Adaptation. In: Dimensions of Darwinism, ed. Grene, M.. Cambridge University Press. [DS]Google Scholar
Campbell, D. T. (1965) Variation and selective retention in sociocultural evolution. In: Social change in developing areas: A reintcrprctation of evolutionary theory, ed. Barringer, H. R., Blanksten, G. I. & Mack, R. W.. Shenkman. [rPK, HCP]Google Scholar
Caplan, A. L. (1981) Pick your poison: Historicism, essentialism, and emergentism in the definition of species. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4:285–86. [MTG]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Caro, T. M. (1986) The functions of stotting in Thomson's gazelles: Some tests of the predictions. Animal Behaviour 34:663–84. [PB]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chagnon, N. & Bugos, P. (1979) Kin selection and conflict: An analysis of a Yanomamo ax fight. In: Evolutionary biology and human social behavior: An anthropological perspective, ed. Chagnon, N. & Irons, W.. Duxbury. [arPK, DS, PKS]Google Scholar
Chagnon, N. & Irons, W., eds. (1979). Evolutionary biology and human social behavior: An anthropological perspective. Duxbury. [rPK, JB]Google Scholar
Charnov, E. L. (1982) The evolution of sex allocation. Princeton University Press. [MEL]Google ScholarPubMed
Churehland, P. S. (1986) Neurophilosophy: Toward a unified science of the mind-brain. MIT Press. [PSC]Google Scholar
Clutton-Brock, T., Guinness, F. & Albon, S. (1982) Red deer: Behavior and ecology of two sexes. University of Chicago Press. [rPK]Google Scholar
Dawkins, R. (1979) Twelve misunderstandings of kin selection. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 51:184–200. [rPK]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dickemann, M. (1979) Female infanticide, reproductive strategies and social stratification: A preliminary model. In: Evolutionary biology and human social behavior: An anthropological perspective, ed. Chagnon, N. & Irons, W.. Duxbury. [arPK, EAS]Google Scholar
Draper, P. & Harpending, H. (1982) Father absence and reproductive strategy: An evolutionary perspective. Journal of Anthropological Research 38:255–73. [PD]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Durham, W. H. (1982) Interactions of genetic and cultural evolution: Models and examples. Human Ecology 10:289–323. [PKS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Durham, W. H. (in press) Coevolution: Genes, culture, and human diversity. Stanford University Press. [EAS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eldredge, N. & Gould, S. J. (1972) Punctuated equilibria: An alternative to phyletic gradualism. In: Models in paleobiology, ed. Schopf, T. J. M.. Freeman and Cooper. [MTG]Google Scholar
Eldredge, N. & Salthe, S. N. (1985) Hierarchy and evolution. Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology 1:184–208. [HCP]Google Scholar
Emlen, S. T. (1978) The evolution of cooperative breeding in birds. In: Behavioral ecology: An evolutionary approach, ed. Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B.. Blackwell. [aPK]Google Scholar
Emlen, S. T. (1984) Cooperative breeding in birds and mammals. In: Behavioral ecology: An evolutionary approach, 2nd ed., ed. Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B.. Sinauer. [aPK]Google Scholar
Futterman, A. & Allen, G. E. (unpublished) Psychometrics, eugenics and social policy. [AF]Google Scholar
Ghiselin, M. T. (1972) Models in phylogeny. In: Models in paleobiology, ed. Schopf, T. J. M.. Freeman and Cooper. [MTG]Google Scholar
Ghiselin, M. T. (1974a) The economy of nature and the evolution of sex. University of California Press. [rPK, MTG, MEL]Google Scholar
Ghiselin, M. T. (1974b) A radical solution to the species problem. Systematic Zoology 23:536–54. [rPK, MTG]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ghiselin, M. T. (1981) Categories, life, and thinking. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4:269–313. [MTG]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ghiselin, M. T. (in press) Bioeconomics and the metaphysics of selection. Journal of Social and Biological Structures. [MTG]Google Scholar
Gould, S. J. (1977) Biological potentiality vs. biological determinism. In: Ever since Darwin, ed. Gould, S. J.. Norton. [rPK]Google Scholar
Gould, S. J. (1982) Darwinism and the expansion of evolutionary theory. Science 216:380–87. [rPK]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Gould, S. J. & Lewontin, R. C. (1979) The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist programme. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 205:581–98. Reprinted In: Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology, ed. Sober, E.. MIT Press. [arPK, JD, PTS]Google Scholar
Gould, S. J. & Vrba, E. S. (1982) Exaptation: A missing term in the science of form. Paleobiology 8:4–15. [PB]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grafen, A. (1982) How not to measure inclusive fitness. Nature 298:425–26. [rPK, PB]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Halliday, T. R. (1983) The study of mate choice. In: Mate Choice, ed. Bateson, P.. Cambridge University Press. [PB]Google Scholar
Hamilton, W. (1964) The genetical evolution of social behavior, I. In: Group selection (1971), ed. GWilliams, . C.. Aldine. [arPK]Google Scholar
Hartung, J. (1985) Matrilineal inheritance: New theory and analysis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8:661–88. [PKS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hepper, P. G. (1986) Kin recognition: Functions and mechanisms. A review. Biological Reviews 61:63–93. [PB]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hill, K., Kaplan, H., Hawkes, K. & Hurtado, A. M. (1984) Foraging decisions among Ache hunter-gatherers and implications for human and hominoid resource choice. Unpublished. [MEL]Google Scholar
Hinde, R. A. (1978) Dominance and role: Two concepts with dual meaning. Journal of Social and Biological Structures 1:27–38. [ISB]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ho, M. W. & Saunders, P. T. (1984) Beyond neo-Darwinism: An introduction to the new evolutionary paradigm. Academic Press. [PTS]Google Scholar
Hull, D. L. (1980) Sociobiology: Another new synthesis. In: Sociobiology: Beyond nature/nurture? ed. Barlow, G. W. & Silverberg, J.. American Association for the Advancement of Science. [MTG]Google Scholar
Isiugo-Abanihem, U. (1985) Child fosterage in West Africa. Population and Development Review 11:53–73. [PD]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Johnson, P. L. (1981) When dying is better than living: Female suicide among the Gainj of Papua New Guinea. Ethnology 20:325–34. [PD]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jorde, L. B. (1980) The genetic structure of subdivided human populations: A review. In: Current developments in anthropological genetics, vol. 1, ed. Mielke, J. H. & Crawford, M. H.. Plenum. [HH]Google Scholar
Kaffman, M. (1977) Sexual standards and behavior of the kibbutz adolescent. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 47:207–17. [aPK]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kamin, L. (1986) Is crime in the genes? The answer may depend on who chooses what evidence. Scientific American 254:22–27. [AF]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kitcher, P. (1982) Abusing science: The case against creationism. MIT Press. [rPK, JB]Google Scholar
Kitcher, P. (1984b) Against the monism of the moment: A reply to Elliott Sober. Philosophy of Science 51:616–30. [rPK]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kitcher, P. (1985) Vaulting ambition: Sociobiology and the quest for human nature. MIT Press.Google Scholar
Kitcher, P. (1986a) Bewitchment of the biologist (review of Eldredge 1985). Nature 320:649–650. [rPK, MTG]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kitcher, P. (1986b) Taking culture seriously (review of Boyd & Richerson 1985). Nature 319:105–6. [rPK]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kitcher, P. (1987) Imitating Selection. In: Models and metaphors in evolutionary theory, ed. Fox, S. & John Wiley, M.-W. Ho.. [rPK]Google Scholar
Kitcher, P. (forthcoming) Ghostly whispers: Mayr, Ghiselin, and “the philosophers” on the ontology of species. Biology and Philosophy. [rPK]Google Scholar
Kleiman, D. (1977) Monogamy in mammals. Quarterly Review of Biology 52:39–69. [aPK]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B. (1978) Behavioral ecology: An evolutionary approach. Blackwell. [rPK]Google Scholar
Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B. (1981) An introduction to behavioral ecology. Blackwell. [aPK, MEL, PTS]Google Scholar
Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B. (1984) Behavioral ecology: An evolutionary approach. Sinauer. [rPK]Google Scholar
Kripke, S. (1972) Naming and necessity. In: Semantics of natural languages, ed. Davidson, D. & Harman, G.. Reidel. [rPK]Google Scholar
Kurland, J. (1979) Paternity, mother's brother, and human sociality. In: Evolutionary biology and human social behavior: An anthropological perspective, ed. Chagnon, N. & Irons, W.. Duxbury. [arPK, EAS]Google Scholar
Lakatos, I. (1970) Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes. In: Criticism and the growth of knowledge, ed. Lakatos, I. & Musgrave, A.. Cambridge University Press. [PKS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lamb, M. E., Pleck, J. H., Charnov, E. L. & Levine, J. A. (1985) Paternal behavior in humans. American Zoologist 25:883–94. [MEL]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lamb, M. E., Pleck, J. H., Charnov, E. L. & Levine, J. A. (in press) A biosocial perspective on paternal behavior and involvement. In: Parenting across the lifespan: Biosocial perspectives, ed. Lancaster, J. B., Rossi, A., Altmann, J. & Sherrod, L. R.. Aldine. [MEL]Google Scholar
Lambert, D. M., Millar, C. D. & Hughes, T. J. (1986) On the classic case of natural selection. Rivista Biologia – Biological Forum 79:11–49. [PTS]Google ScholarPubMed
Lewontin, R. C. (1974) The genetic basis of evolutionary change. Columbia University Press. [rPK, MTG]Google Scholar
Lewontin, R. C. & White, M. J. D. (1960) Interaction between inversion polymorphisms of two chromosome pairs in the grasshopper, Moraba scurra. Evolution 14:116–29. [aPK]Google Scholar
Lloyd, J. E. (1979) Mating behavior and natural selection. Florida Entomologist 62:17–34. [DS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lumsden, C. J. & Wilson, E. O. (1981) Genes, mind, and culture. Harvard University Press. [arPK, JD, HCP, NCS, PKS]Google Scholar
Lumsden, C. J. & Wilson, E. O. (1983) Promethean fire. Harvard University Press. [arPK]Google Scholar
Maynard Smith, J. (1969) The status of neo-Darwinism. In: Towards a theoretical biology 2: Sketches, ed. Waddington, C. H.. Edinburgh University Press. [PTS]Google Scholar
Maynard Smith, J. (1982) Evolution and the theory of games. Cambridge University Press. [arPK, MEL]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maynard Smith, J. (1985) Biology and the behaviour of man. (Review of Kitcher, Vaulting Ambition.) Nature 318:121–22. [rPK, EAS]Google Scholar
Maynard Smith, J. & Holliday, R. (1979) Preface to The evolution of adaptation by natural selection, ed. Maynard Smith, J. & Holliday, R.. The Royal Society. [PTS]Google Scholar
Maynard Smith, J. & Warren, N. (1982) Review of Lumsden & Wilson 1981. Evolution 36:620–27. [arPK]Google Scholar
Mayr, E. (1980) Some thoughts on the history of the evolutionary synthesis. In: The evolutionary synthesis, ed. Mayr, E. & Provine, W.. Harvard University Press. [PTS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McGuire, M. (1981) Review of Alexander 1979. Ethology and Sociobiology 2:49. [rPK]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Meggitt, M. (1964) Male-female relationships in the highlands of New Guinea. American Anthropologist 66:204–24. [PD]Google Scholar
Michod, R. (1982) The theory of kin selection. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 13:23–55. [rPK]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Money, J. & Ehrhardt, A. (1972) Man and woman, boy and girl. Johns Hopkins University Press. [aPK]Google Scholar
Murphy, J. G. (1982) Evolution, morality, and the meaning of life. Rowman and Littlefield. [rPK, MHS]Google Scholar
Nisbett, R. & Ross, L. (1980) Human inference: Strategies and shortcomings of social judgment. Prentice-Hall. [PSC]Google Scholar
Orians, G. (1969) On the evolution of mating systems in birds and mammals. In: Readings in sociobiology, ed. Clutton-Brock, T. & Harvey, P.. Freeman, 1979. [aPK]Google Scholar
Orians, G. (1980) Habitat selection: General theory and applications to human behavior. In: The evolution of human social behavior, ed. Lockard, J. S.. Elsevier. [DS]Google Scholar
Oster, G. & Alberch, P. (1982) Evolution and the bifurcation of developmental programs. Evolution 36:444–59. [rPK]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Oster, G. & Wilson, E. O. (1978) Caste and ecology in the social insects. Princeton University Press. [aPK]Google ScholarPubMed
Packer, G. (1979) Inter-troop transfer and inbreeding avoidance in Papio anubis. Animal Behavior. 27:1–36. [rPK, ISB]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parker, G. (1978) Searching for mates. In: Behavioral ecology: An evolutionary approach, ed. Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B.. Blackwell. [arPK, JD]Google Scholar
Parker, G. & MacNair, M. (1978) Models of parent-offspring conflict. I: Monogamy. Animal Behaviour 26:97–110. [MEL]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Plotkin, H. & Odling-Smee, F. (1981) A multiple-level model of evolution and its implications for sociobiology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4:225–68. [rPK]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pusey, A. (1980) Inbreeding avoidance in chimpanzees. Animal Behavior 28:543–552. [rPK, ISB]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pylyshyn, Z. (1980) Computation and cognition: Issues in the foundation of cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3:111–32. [DS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rawls, J. (1980) Kantian constructivism in moral theory. Journal of Philosophy 77:515–72. [rPK]Google Scholar
Rosenberg, A. (1980) Sociobiology and the preemption of social science. Johns Hopkins University Press. [AR]Google Scholar
Ruse, M. (1981) Species as individuals: Logical, biological, and philosophical problems. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4:299–300. [MTG]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ruse, M. (1982) Is human sociobiology a new paradigm? The Philosophical Forum 13:119–43. [aPK]Google Scholar
Sahlins, M. (1976) The use and abuse of biology. University of Michigan Press. [aPK]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Segerstrale, U. S. (1986) Colleagues in conflict: An “in vivo” analysis of the sociobiology controversy. Biology & Philosophy 1:53–87. [MTG]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shepher, J. (1971) Mate selection among second-generation kibbutz adolescents and adults: Incest avoidance and negative imprinting. Archives of Sexual Behavior 1:293–307. [aPK, PB]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Singer, P. (1981) The expanding circle: Ethics and sociobiology. Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Oxford University Press. [rPK, PS]Google Scholar
Smith, E. A. (in press) Optimization theory in anthropology: Applications and critiques. In: The latest on the best: Essays on evolution, optimality, and behavior, ed. Dupré, J.. MIT Press. [EAS]Google Scholar
Spielman, R., Neel, J. & Li, F. (1977) Inbreeding estimation from population data: Models, procedures and implications. Genetics 85:355–71. [arPK, HH]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Talmon, Y. (1964) Mate selection in collective settlements. American Sociological Review 29:491–508. [PB]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Templeton, A. (1982) Adaptation and the integration of evolutionary forces. In: Perspectives on evolution, ed. Milkman, R.. Sinauer. [aPK]Google Scholar
Tinbergen, N. (1963) On aims and methods of ethology. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 20:410–33. [PB]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tinbergen, N. (1968) On war and peace in animals and man. Science 160:1411–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tinbergen, N. Reprinted in: Caplan, A., ed. (1979) The sociobiology debate. Harper & Row. [aPK]Google Scholar
Trivers, R. (1972) Parental investment and sexual selection. In: Readings in Sociobiology, ed. Clutton-Brock, T. & Harvey, P.. Freeman, 1979. [aPK]Google Scholar
Trivers, R. (1974) Parent-offspring conflict. In: Readings in sociobiology, ed. Clutton-Brock, T. & Harvey, P.. Freeman, 1979. [aPK]Google Scholar
Trivers, R. & Willard, D. (1973) Natural selection and parental ability to vary the sex ratio of off spring. Science 179:90–92. [aPK]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van den Berghe, P. (1980) Incest and exogamy: A sociobiological reconsideration. Ethology and Sociobiology 1:151–62. [aPK]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van den Berghe, P. (1983) Human inbreeding avoidance: Culture in nature. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6:91–123. [aPK, HH]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van den Berghe, P. & Mesher, G. (1980) Royal incest and inclusive fitness. American Ethnologist 7:300–17. [aPK, PKS]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Waddington, C. H. (1959) Evolutionary systems: Animal and human. Nature 183:1634–38. [HCP]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weber, M. (1904) The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Scribner's, 1958. [AR]Google Scholar
Wilson, E. O. (1975) Sociobiology: The new synthesis. Harvard University Press. [arPK, HCP, MHS, PTS]Google Scholar
Wolf, A. & Huang, C. (1980) Marriage and adoption in China, 1845–1945. Stanford University Press. [aPK, PB]Google Scholar
Woolfenden, G. (1975) Florida scrub jay helpers at the nest. Auk 92:1–15. [arPK, JB, JD]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Woolfenden, G. & Fitzpatrick, J. (1978) The inheritance of territory in group-breeding birds. Bioscience 28:104–8. [arPK, AF]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Woolfenden, G. & Fitzpatrick, J. (1984) The Florida scrub jay: Demography of a cooperative-breeding bird. Princeton University Press. [rPK]Google Scholar