Darwinian Heritage and Sociobiology

JOHAN M. G. van der DENNEN, born in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) in 1944, studied behavioral sciences at the University of Groningen, and is at present a researcher at the Section Political Science of the Department of Legal Theory, formerly the Polemological (Peace Institute), University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on all aspects of human and animal aggression, sexual violence, neuro- and psychopathology of human violence, political violence, theories of war causation, macroquantitative research on contemporary wars, ethnocentrism, and the politics of peace and war in preindustrial societies. In 1995 he published his dissertation, The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-Coalitional Reproductive Strategy, an evolutionary analysis of the origin of intergroup violence in humans and animals. He is Secretary of the European Sociobiological Society (ESS).DAVID SMILLIE was trained as a developmental psychologist and taught at New College, University of South Florida for 25 years./e Since retiring, he has been working as a Visiting Professor in Zoology at Duke University. His articles and book chapters have appeared widely in scholarly publications.DANIEL R. WILSON is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and Medical Director for Public Psychiatry. He has published widely in both general and evolutionary psychiatry.

• Introduction by the editorsBiological FoundationsGroup Selection and the Selfish Gene: The Units of Selection Problem Revisited by Michael J.C. WallerThe Implications of Darwin's Variational Paradigm by David SmillieCo-operative Genes: Synergy and the Bioeconomics of Evolution by Peter A. CorningSociobiology and CultureSociobiology of Human Co-operation: The Interplay of Ultimate and Proximate Causes by Peter MeyerEvolution and Culture: The Missing Link by Robin AllottEvolution: Implications for Epistemology and Cultural Variation by Dennis WernerCulture and the Darwinian Heritage: Implications for Literary Research in the University by John ConstableSociobiology and Political ScienceMarx, Darwin, and Human Nature by Lucio Ferreira AlvesCulture and the Evolution of the Human Mating System by Pouwel SlurinkHuman Evolution and the Origin of War: A Darwinian Heritage by Johan M.G. van der DennenEthnic Conflicts and Ethnic Nepotism by Tatu VanhanenMating Patterns and Their Role in the Formation and Structure of the Abbad Tribe in Jordan by Abdalla J. NabulsiIndividual Differences, Brain Size, and Evolutionary Science by J. Philippe RushtonSociobiology and the Concerns of SociologistsWith Whom Was Darwin Supposed to Fall in Love? by Ada LampertGrandparental Caregiving and Intergenerational Relations Reflect Reproductive Strategies by Harald A. Euler and Barbara WeitzelMarital Power Dynamics: A Darwinian Perspective by Norma J. Schell and Carol C. WeisfeldSexual Dimorphism and the Evolution of Gender Stereotypes in Man: A Sociobiological Perspective by Marina L. Butovskaya and Alexander G. KozintsevEvolutionary Psychology and PsychiatryDarwin and the 18th Century British Moral Tradition by Michael BradieEvolutionary Psychology: The Appropriate Disciplinary Link between Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences by Charles ElworthyImplications of Sexual Selections for Variation in Human Personality and Behaviour by John S. PriceSerotonin, Dopamine, and the Evolution of Morality via Sociophysiological Neurotransmission by Daniel R. Wilson, Sean Stanton, and Sandra WilsonDarwinian Analysis of the Emotion of Pride/Shame by Glenn WeisfeldFor Further ReadingIndex