Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Life Sciences - Zoology - Ethology (Animal Behavior)

In this book, a social dilemma with partner selection is introduced and studied with the methods of formal game theory, experimental economics and computer simulations. It allows exploration of simultaneous dynamics of the network structure and cooperative behavior on this structure. The results of this study show that partner choice strongly facilitates cooperation and leads to networks where free-riders are likely to be excluded.

Gregory Bateson's contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number of his insights were taken up and developed further in anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and communication theory. But the large, trans-disciplinary synthesis that, in his own mind, was his major contribution to science received little attention from the mainstream scientific communities.

This book represents a major attempt to revise this deficiency. Scholars from ecology,...

Kohler's classic analysis of the intelligence of apes marks a turning point in the psychology of thinking. Through meticulously described experiments, his two-fold aim is to ascertain the degree of relationship between the intellectual capacity of anthropoid apes and of man and to gain insight into the nature of intelligent acts."

This book introduces to the reader unfamiliar with primatology in Japan three research projects representative of the unique multidisciplinary approach carried out by scientists at Kyoto University, the country s premier institution for primate studies. The projects are all aimed at understanding the age-old questions, where did we come from, and what makes us unique or similar to our primate ancestors? The first chapter, by Naofumi Nakagawa, focuses on the cultural diversity of social behavior in the Japanese macaque. This chapter reviews research on primate culture, in particular the...

Functional lateralization in the human brain was first identified in the classic observations by Broca in the 19^th century. Only one hundred years later, however, research on this topic began anew, discovering that humans share brain lateralization not only with other mammals, but with other vertebrates and even invertebrates. Studies on lateralization have also received considerable attention in recent years due to their important evolutionary implications, becoming an important and flourishing field of investigation worldwide among ethnologists and psychologists.

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Anthropologie, wortlich ubersetzt die Lehre vom Menschen, ist eine primar biologische Disziplin mit vielfaltigen kulturwissenschaftlichen Bezugen. In diesem aktuellen Lehrbuch zur Anthropologie reduzieren die Autorinnen deshalb die Biologie des Menschen nicht auf eine Zoologie des Menschen, sondern beziehen seine kulturelle Uberformung mit ein. Der Band bietet eine Einfuhrung in die wichtigsten Fragen und ist daher besonders fur das Grundstudium geeignet. Fur die Neuauflage wurden nahezu alle Kapitel erheblich erweitert und aktualisiert.

L'alimentazione, oltre a soddisfare un bisogno primario e a svolgere un ruolo chiave nella prevenzione delle malattie, ha importanti implicazioni culturali, sociali e psicologiche. Nutrirsi e un atto appreso e di natura cognitiva, ed e sempre influenzato dalle idee, dalla religione e dalla tradizione famigliare di un individuo. L'atto del mangiare assume un significato culturale ed e un elemento cruciale nella creazione di un senso di appartenenza; attorno al cibo si costruisce un linguaggio che chiama in causa anche ricordi, percezioni e stati d'animo connessi all'affettivita e...