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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Evolution, culture, and behavior
  name:
    name part: Tonneau, François
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Thompson, Nicholas S.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XV, 318 pages .)
  abstract: This volume is perhaps best characterised by its interdisciplinary nature and reliance on an eclectic range of approaches. One theme that naturally emerges from the collected essays is that of causation versus analogy. Phenomena defined at multiple levels can in principle be studied in two ways - vertically and horizontally. The vertical strategy directly specifies causal relations holding between levels, whereas the horizontal approach looks for parallels between levels, seeking to isolate shared causal properties. One of the essays here stands directly for the vertical strategy, while another warns explicitly against the perils of a loose selectionist analogy among levels. Other parallels between evolution and culture are probed, calling attention to the general limits of analogy, or carefully noting the respects in which the proposed analogy is expected to break down. The other themes of economics, optimisation, and stability, when not explicitly mentioned, lurk in the background of any treatment of culture and behaviour in relation to natural selection.
  note: edited by François Tonneau, Nicholas S. Thompson.
  subject:
    topic: Animal behavior
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Animal behavior
  classification: QL751
  classification: 591.5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Perspectives in ethology ; 13
  identifier: 9781461512219 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1461512212 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781461354475
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  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 140113
    record change date: 20260422222710.9
    record identifier: in00003545888
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng