Games, Sex and Evolution
Author: John Maynard Smith
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Maynard Smith
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Maynard Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982-10-21
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521288842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 1982 book is an account of an alternative way of thinking about evolution and the theory of games.
Author: John Maynard Smith
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1468478621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now in paperback, Did Darwin Get It Right discusses some of the hottest issues in biology today. Its author, the eminently quotable John Maynard Smith, discusses such fascinating conundrums as how life began, whether the brain works like a computer, why most animals and plants reproduce sexually, and how social behavior evolved out of the context of natural selection--a process which would seem to favor selfishness. A humorous and insightful writer, John Maynard Smith has the special ability to convey the excitement of science, its complexity and fascination, without baffling or boring his readers. In these 28 brief and accessible essays, Maynard ranges widely over such issues as science and the media, the birth of sociobiology, the evolution of animal intelligence and the limitations of evolutionary theory. For his work on the evolution of sex, Smith won the Darwin medal from the Royal Society, and he has pioneered the application of game theory to animal behavior.
Author: John Gribbin
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780760745434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter B. Gray
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0674074394
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Few things come more naturally to us than sex—or so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would appear odd indeed. He or she might wonder why we bother with inconveniences like clothes, why we prefer to make love on a bed, and why we fuss so needlessly over privacy. Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior invites us into the thought-experiment of imagining human sex from the vantage point of our primate cousins, in order to underscore the role of evolution in shaping all that happens, biologically and behaviorally, when romantic passions are aroused. Peter Gray and Justin Garcia provide an interdisciplinary synthesis that draws on the latest discoveries in evolutionary theory, genetics, neuroscience, comparative primate research, and cross-cultural sexuality studies. They are our guides through an exploration of the patterns and variations that exist in human sexuality, in chapters covering topics ranging from the evolution of sex differences and reproductive physiology to the origins of sexual play, monogamous unions, and the facts and fictions surrounding orgasm. Intended for generally curious readers of all stripes, this up-to-date, one-volume survey of the evolutionary science of human sexual behavior explains why sexuality has remained a core fascination of human beings throughout time and across cultures.
Author: Martin Daly
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text provides an elementary level discussion of recent theory relating to the evolutionary and adaptive aspects of reproductive behaviour. The relation between ultimate and proximate levels of explanation is the major theme of the book. Two new chapters in this edition incorporate findings from recent research and there is also new material on humans, physiology, and development. Sex and reproductive behaviour are examined from an evolutionary comparative perspective and numerous empirical studies and examples are cited.
Author: Donald Symons
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1979-08-30
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0199878471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anthropology, Sexual Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies
Author: Karl Sigmund
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2017-08-21
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0486824802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Accessible, informative, and enjoyable treatment discusses the application of the ideas and methods of game theory and mathematical modeling to such areas as evolution, sex, animal behavior, and aggression. "Excellent." — Nature
Author: Johannes Breuer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-09
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1351663569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Games: Digital Hunter-Gatherers is the first edited volume that systematically applies evolutionary psychology to the study of the use and effects of digital games. The book is divided into four parts: Theories and Methods Emotion and Morality Social Interaction Learning and Motivation These topics reflect the main areas of digital games research as well as some of the basic categories of psychological research. The book is meant as a resource for researchers and graduate students in psychology, anthropology, media studies and communication as well as video game designers who are interested in learning more about the evolutionary roots of player behaviors and experiences.
Author: Cailin O'Connor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0198789971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O'Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender, race, and religion, to address this question. She uses the formal frameworks of game theory and evolutionary game theory to explore the cultural evolution of the conventions which piggyback on these seemingly irrelevant social categories. These frameworks elucidate a variety of topics from the innateness of gender differences, to collaboration in academia, to household bargaining, to minority disadvantage, to homophily. They help to show how inequity can emerge from simple processes of cultural change in groups with gender and racial categories, and under a wide array of situations. The process of learning conventions of coordination and resource division is such that some groups will tend to get more and others less. O'Connor offers solutions to such problems of coordination and resource division and also shows why we need to think of inequity as part of an ever evolving process. Surprisingly minimal conditions are needed to robustly produce phenomena related to inequity and, once inequity emerges in these models, it takes very little for it to persist indefinitely. Thus, those concerned with social justice must remain vigilant against the dynamic forces that push towards inequity.