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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This is Alexandra Maryanski’s and Jonathan H. Turner’s best effort yet in their long quest to try to help save biophobic sociologists from themselves. Darwin predicted that evolutionary thinking would “throw much light” on humanity’s origin and history. Turner and Maryanski show exactly where, and how, to throw that light.’ -- Richard S. Machalek, University of Wyoming, US
Table of ContentsContents: Preface ix 1 On the origins of evolutionary analysis in biology and sociology 2 Going back in time: the power of cladistic analysis 3 Comparative neuro-anatomy: evolution of the brain from hominin to human 4 Decline and revival of evolutionary analysis in the social sciences 5 Human behavioral complexes: the biology and sociology of evolved humans 6 The emergence of the socio-cultural universe: disentangling levels of reality 7 Fundamental differences between socio-cultural and biological evolution Bibliography Index
