The Oxford handbook of evolution, biology, and society / edited by Rosemary L. Hopcroft.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Evolution, Biology, and Society / Rosemary L. Hopcroft -- On the Genetic and Genomic Basis of Aggression, Violence, and Antisocial Behavior / Kevin M. Beaver, Eric J. Connolly, Joseph L. Nedelec, Joseph A. Schwartz -- Genes and Status Achievement / Fran�cois Nielsen -- Physiology of Face-to-face Competition / Allan Mazur -- Peer Networks, Psychobiology of Stress Response, and Adolescent Development / Olga Kornienko, Douglas A. Granger -- Stress and Stress Hormones / Jeff Davis, Kristen Damron -- Evolution and Human Reproduction / Martin Fieder, Susanne Huber -- Evolution, Societal Sexism, and Universal Average Sex Differences in Cognition and Behavior (ASDCBS) / Lee Ellis -- From Paganism to World Transcendence: Religious Attachment Theory and the Evolution of the World Religions / Stephen K. Sanderson -- The Evolutionary Approach to History: Sociocultural Phylogenetics / Marion Blute, Fiona M. Jordan -- The Neurology of Religion: An Explanation from Evolutionary Sociology / Alexandra Maryanski, Jonathan H. Turner -- Edward Westermarck: The First Sociobiologist / Stephen K. Sanderson -- Evolutionary Theory and Criminology / Anthony Walsh, Cody Jorgensen -- The Biosocial Study of Ethnicity / Frank Salter -- Evolutionary Behavioral Science: Core Principles, Common Misconceptions, and a Troubling Tendency / Timothy Crippen -- Why Sociology Should Incorporate Biology / Rosemary L. Hopcroft -- Evolutionary Family Sociology / Anna Rotkirch -- Divergence and Possible Consilience between Evolutionary Biology and Sociology / Richard Machalek -- Social Epigenetics of Human Behavior / Daniel E. Adkins, Kelli M. Rasmussen, Anna R. Docherty -- DNA is Not Destiny / Rose McDermott, Peter K. Hatemi -- Sociology's Contentious Courtship with Biology: A Ballad / Douglas A. Marshall -- The Genetics of Human Behavior: A Hopeless Opus? / Colter Mitchell -- Genetics and Politics: A Review for the Social Scientist / Adam Lockyer, Peter K. Hatemi -- Human Sociosexual Dominance Theory / Kristin Liv Rauch, Rosemary L. Hopcroft -- The Savanna Theory of Happiness / Satoshi Kanazawa, Norman P. Li -- Sex Differences in the Human Brain / David D. Franks -- Discovering Human Nature through Cross-Species Analysis / Jonathan H. Turner -- Reward Allowances and Contrast Effects in Social Evolution: A Challenge to Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity / Michael Hammond -- How Evolutionary Psychology Can Contribute to Group Process Research / Joseph M. Whitmeyer.

The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society explores a growing area within sociology: research that uses theory and/or methods from biology. The essays in this handbook integrate current research from all strands of this new and developing area. The first section of this book has essays that address the history of the use of method and theory from biology in the social sciences; the second section has papers on evolutionary approaches to social psychology; the third section has chapters describing research on the interaction of genes (and other biochemicals such as hormones) and environmental contexts on a variety of outcomes of sociological interest; and the fourth section includes papers that apply evolutionary theory to areas of traditional concern to sociologists-including the family, fertility, sex and gender, religion, crime, and race and ethnic relations.

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