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Evolution and modification of behavior. by Lorenz, Konrad,1903-1989.(CARDINAL)277847;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-115).Introduction -- Theoretical attitudes toward the concept of the "innate" -- Critique of the first behavioristic argument -- Critique of the second behavioristic argument -- Critique of the modern ethologists' attitude -- Critique of the earlier ethologists' attitude -- The value and the limitations of the deprivation experiment -- Summary.
Subjects: Behavior genetics.; Behavior evolution.;
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Time, love, memory : a great biologist and his quest for the origins of behavior / by Weiner, Jonathan.(CARDINAL)183573;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-283) and index.
Subjects: Benzer, Seymour.; Behavior genetics.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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The selfish gene / by Dawkins, Richard,1941-(CARDINAL)329893;
Bibliography: pages 217-220.
Subjects: Behavior genetics.; Evolution (Biology); Genetics.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The family dynamic : a journey into the mystery of sibling success / by Dominus, Susan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-353).The Groffs -- Generators -- The Holifields -- Expectations -- The Murguías -- Luck and fate -- The Chens -- Finding nurture -- The Paulus family -- Openness -- The Wojcickis -- Better, better, best."Is there a secret sauce behind those rare families that boast multiple highly successful children? Award-winning New York Times journalist weaves story with science in pursuit of answers. Acclaimed New York Times investigative journalist Susan Dominus profiles six families with several exceptionally accomplished children in order to tease apart the various factors that might have led to their success, including inherited tendencies. She starts with the iconic Brontë sisters, whose remarkable literary success inspired endless speculation about the reason for so much talent under one roof. Dominus, herself the mother of twin teenagers, then moves to the present moment, relating the fascinating trajectories of families from diverse cultural, racial and socio-economic backgrounds, including young parents from China who fled the one-child policy to open a Chinese restaurant in Appalachia and sent four children to elite colleges and careers that give back in technology and medicine; the Groff family, whose claim to fame is not just an award-winning novelist but an Olympic athlete and a notable entrepreneur; and the Holifields, raised in the Jim Crow South and boasting two powerful attorneys, both Harvard law school graduates, and a cardiologist, all three influential, in their own ways, in civil rights. Woven into these and other inspiring stories is an account of centuries of scientific research into the question of nature vs. nurture in predicting outcomes"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Self-help publications.; Families.; Children.; Parenting.; Behavior genetics.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 11
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Genesis [sound recording] : the deep origin of societies / by Wilson, Edward O.,author.(CARDINAL)138801; Hogan, Jonathan,narrator.; Recorded Books, Inc.(CARDINAL)340508;
Narrated by Jonathan Hogan.Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least seventeen-among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp-have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. Whether writing about midges who "dance about like acrobats" or schools of anchovies who protectively huddle "to appear like a gigantic fish," or proposing that human society owes a debt of gratitude to "postmenopausal grandmothers" and "childless homosexuals," Genesis is a pithy yet path-breaking work of evolutionary theory, braiding twenty-first-century scientific theory with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is known.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Animal behavior.; Behavior evolution.; Behavior genetics.; Science.;
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The selfish gene / by Dawkins, Richard,1941-author.(CARDINAL)329893;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-446) and index.Why are people? -- The replicators -- Immortal coils -- The gene machine -- Aggression : stability and the selfish machine -- Genesmanship -- Family planning -- Battle of the generations -- Battle of the sexes -- You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours -- Memes : the new replicators -- Nice guys finish first -- The long reach of the gene.The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.
Subjects: Behavior genetics.; Evolution (Biology); Genetics.; Natural selection.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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Living with our genes : why they matter more than you think / by Hamer, Dean.; Copeland, Peter,1957-(CARDINAL)368827;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and index.
Subjects: Temperament.; Temperament; Personality; Behavior genetics.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Genesis : the deep origin of societies / by Wilson, Edward O.,author.(CARDINAL)138801; Kaspari, Debby Cotter,illustrator.(CARDINAL)608173;
Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, "Genesis" demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least seventeen-among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge- dwelling shrimp-have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. Whether writing about midges who ٢dance about like acrobats٣ or schools of anchovies who protectively huddle ٢to appear like a gigantic fish,٣ or proposing that human society owes a debt of gratitude to ٢postmenopausal grandmothers٣ and ٢childless homosexuals,٣ "Genesis" is a pithy yet path-breaking work of evolutionary theory, braiding twenty-first-century scientific theory with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is known.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Animal behavior.; Behavior evolution.; Behavior genetics.; Social behavior in animals.; Animal societies.;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 14
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The accidental homo sapiens : genetics, behavior, and free will / by Tattersall, Ian,author.(CARDINAL)708654; DeSalle, Rob,author.(CARDINAL)330798;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and index.When you think of evolution, the picture that most likely comes to mind is a straight-forward progression, the iconic illustration of a primate morphing into a proud, upright human being. But in reality, random events have played huge roles in determining the evolutionary histories of everything from lions to lobsters to humans. However, random genetic novelties are most likely to become fixed in small populations. It is mathematically unlikely that this will happen in large ones.With our enormous, close-packed, and seemingly inexorably expanding population, humanity has fallen under the influence of the famous (or infamous) ٢bell curve.٣ Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle's revelatory new book explores what the future of our species could hold, while simultaneously revealing what we didn't become-and what we won't become.A cognitively unique species, and our actions fall on a bell curve as well. Individual people may be saintly or evil; generous or grasping; narrow-minded or visionary. But any attempt to characterize our species must embrace all of its members and so all of these antitheses. It is possible not just for the species, but for a single individual to be all of these things-even in the same day. We all fall somewhere within the giant hyperspace of the human condition that these curves describe.The Accidental Homo Sapiens shows readers that though humanity now exists on this bell curve, we are far from a stagnant species. Tattersall and DeSalle reveal how biological evolution in modern humans has given way to a cultural dynamic that is unlike anything else the Earth has ever witnessed, and that will keep life interesting-perhaps sometimes too interesting-for as long as we exist on this planet.
Subjects: Evolutionary psychology.; Evolutionary genetics.; Evolution (Biology);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The family that walks on all fours [videorecording] / by Aruoba, Defne.; Harrison, Jemima.; Humphrey, Nicholas.(CARDINAL)727095;
Originally broadcast on television as a segment of Nova in 2006.Researcher Nicholas Humphrey and psychologist Defne Aruoba examine a family living in rural Turkey with five members who walk on all fours, raising questions about human evolution, society, and genetics.DVD.
Subjects: Foreign films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Family; Genetics.; Human behavior.; Human evolution.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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