Human By Nature

This volume represents the outcome of a year-long collaboration among biological and social scientists studying issues of the distinction (or fuzziness thereof) between nature and culture. For social and life scientists and philosophers of science.

Contents: Preface. Human by Nature -- Between Biology and the Social Sciences: General Introduction. Part I: Contexts.A.M. Maryanski, J.H. Turner, M. Borgerhoff Mulder, L. Cosmides, B. Giesen, G. Hodgson, S.J. Shennan, J. Tooby, B.M. Velichkovsky, Looking Back: Historical and Theoretical Context of Present Practice. P. Weingart, U. Segerstråle, S. Maasen, Shifting Boundaries Between the Biological and the Social: The Social and Political Contexts. S.D. Mitchell, L. Daston, G. Gigerenzer, N. Sesardic, P.B. Sloep, The Why's and How's of Interdisciplinarity. Part II: Homologies.H. Kummer, L. Daston, G. Gigerenzer, J. Silk, The Social Intelligence Hypothesis. U. Segerstråle, P. Molnár, A.M. Maryanski, B.M. Velichkovsky, The Social and Biological Foundations of Human Communication. J.H. Turner, A.M. Maryanski, P. Meyer, L. Cosmides, J. Tooby, N. Thornhill, Evolutionary Theory and Human Social Institutions: Psychological Foundations. M. Borgerhoff Mulder, N. Thornhill, E. Voland, P.J. Richerson, The Place of Behavioral Ecological Anthropology in Evolutionary Social Science. Part III: The Value and Limitations of Analogies From Biology in the Study of Culture.P. Weingart, W.H. Durham, R. Boyd, P.J. Richerson, Units of Culture, Types of Transmission. W.H. Durham, R. Boyd, P.J. Richerson, Models and Forces of Cultural Evolution. R. Boyd, M. Borgerhoff Mulder, W.D. Durham, P.J. Richerson, Are Cultural Phylogenies Possible? P. Hejl, E. Jablonka, R. Falk, H. Hendrichs, Complex Systems: Multilevel and Multiprocess Approaches.