Crespi, B. J., Summers, K. [eds] - Human Social Evolution. The Foundational Works of Richard D. Alexander [2013]

Contributors

Preface

Introduction – Kyle Summers and Bernard Crespi

PART I} General Foundations

1. Insect Behavior and Social Evolution

Introduction: From Cricket Taxonomy to a Darwinian Philosophy of Man by Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Excerpt from Alexander, R. D. 1969. Comparative animal behavior and systematics. In: Systematic Biology. Proceedings of the International Conference on Systematics (Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 1967). National Academy of Sciences Publication 1962: 494–517.

2. Cooperation

Introduction: A New Theory of Cooperation by Steven Frank, University of California at Irvine
Excerpt from: Alexander, R.D. 1986. The Biology of Moral Systems. New York: Aldine Press.

3. Eusociality in Naked Mole-Rats

Introduction: Richard Alexander, the Naked Mole-Rat, and the Evolution of Eusociality by Paul Sherman, Cornell University
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D., Noonan, K.M. and Crespi, B.J. 1991. The Evolution of Eusociality. In P. Sherman, J. Jarvis and R.D. Alexander (eds.). The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat: 3–44. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

4. Parent-Offspring Conflict and Manipulation

Introduction: The Evolution of Social Behavior by David Queller, Washington University
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. 1974. The evolution of social behavior. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 5:325–383.


PART II} Human Social Evolution

5. Biology and Culture

Introduction by Mark Flinn, University of Missouri
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. Evolution and culture. In Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: an Anthropological Perspective. N. Chagnon and W.G. Irons (eds.): pp. 59–78. North Scituate, MA: Duxbury Press.

6. Intergroup Competition and Within-group Cooperation

Introduction: Thinking about Human Aggression, Past and Present: Alexander and Tinkle’s (1968) Review of Lorenz and Ardrey by Bobbi Low, University of Michigan
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. and Tinkle, D.W. 1968. Review of On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz and The Territorial Imperative by Robert Ardrey. Bioscience 18:245–248.

7. Kinship, Parental Care, and Human Societies

Introduction: Concealed Ovulation in Humans: Further Evidence by Beverly Strassmann, University of Michigan
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. and Noonan, K.M. 1979. Concealment of ovulation, parental care, and human social evolution. In N.A. Chagnon and W.G. Irons (eds.). Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective. 436–453. North Scituate, MA: Duxbury Press.

8. Human Childhood

Introduction: Altriciality, Neoteny, and Pleiotropy by Paul Turke, University of Michigan
Altriciality: Why are human babies helpless? In Alexander, R.D. 1990. How Did Humans Evolve? Reflections on a Uniquely Unique Species. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Special Publication 1:1–38.

9. Indirect Reciprocity

Introduction: The Basis of Morality, Richard Alexander on Indirect Reciprocity by Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. 1986. The Biology of Moral Systems. New York: Aldine Press.

10. The Evolution of Intelligence

Introduction: Reflections on the Evolution of the Human Psyche by R.I.M. Dunbar, Oxford University
Alexander, R.D. Evolution of the Human Psyche 1989. In P. Mellars and C. Stringer (eds.). The Human Revolution. Behavioral and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans: pp. 455–513. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

11. Evolution of Morality

Introduction: Twelve (More) Things about the Evolution of Morality that Make People Nauseous by David Lahti, City University of New York
Alexander, R.D. Biology and the Moral Paradoxes. Journal of Biological Structures 5:389–395.

12. Evolution and Humor

Introduction: The Adaptive Significance of Humor by Stan Braude, Washington University
Alexander, R.D. Ostracism and Indirect Reciprocity: The Reproductive Significance of Humor. 1986. Ethology and Sociobiology 7:253–270.

13. Ecological Constraints and Human Cooperation

Introduction: Darwin’s Question: How Can Sterility Evolve? by Laura Betzig, The Adaptationist Program
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D., Noonan, K.M. and Crespi, B.J. 1991. The Evolution of Eusociality. In P. Sherman, J. Jarvis and R.D. Alexander (eds.). The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat: pp. 3–44. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

14. Evolution and Religion

Introduction: The Concept of God as a Metaphor for Social Unity: Richard Alexander’s Hypothesis by William Irons, Northwestern University
Religion, Evolution and the Quest for Global Harmony–Original essay for this volume

15. Evolution and the Arts

Introduction: Cornerstone to Capstone: Richard Alexander on Social Selection and the Arts by Kyle Summers, East Carolina University & Bernard Crespi, Simon Fraser University
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. 2003. Evolutionary Selection and the Nature of Humanity. Chapter 15. In: V. Hosle and Ch. Illies (eds.). Darwinism and Philosophy. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

Index