TY - BOOK ID - 33054338 TI - Life History Evolution : A Biological Meta-Theory for the Social Sciences AU - Hertler, Steven C. AU - Figueredo, Aurelio José. AU - Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Mateo. AU - Fernandes, Heitor B. F. AU - Woodley of Menie, Michael A. PY - 2018 SN - 3319901249 3319901257 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Social evolution. KW - Applied psychology. KW - Evolution (Biology). KW - Demography. KW - Physical anthropology. KW - Ecology. KW - Biological Psychology. KW - Evolutionary Biology. KW - Biological and Physical Anthropology. KW - Community & Population Ecology. KW - Balance of nature KW - Biology KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology KW - Biological anthropology KW - Somatology KW - Anthropology KW - Human biology KW - Historical demography KW - Social sciences KW - Population KW - Vital statistics KW - Animal evolution KW - Animals KW - Biological evolution KW - Darwinism KW - Evolutionary biology KW - Evolutionary science KW - Origin of species KW - Evolution KW - Biological fitness KW - Homoplasy KW - Natural selection KW - Phylogeny KW - Applied psychology KW - Psychagogy KW - Psychology, Practical KW - Social psychotechnics KW - Psychology KW - Ecology KW - Biological psychology. KW - Evolutionary biology. KW - Community ecology, Biotic. KW - Biological psychology KW - Biopsychology KW - Human behavior KW - Biological psychiatry KW - Biocenoses KW - Biocoenoses KW - Biogeoecology KW - Biological communities KW - Biomes KW - Biotic community ecology KW - Communities, Biotic KW - Community ecology, Biotic KW - Ecological communities KW - Ecosystems KW - Natural communities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33054338 AB - The social sciences share a mission to shed light on human nature and society. However, there is no widely accepted meta-theory; no foundation from which variables can be linked, causally sequenced, or ultimately explained. This book advances “life history evolution” as the missing meta-theory for the social sciences. Originally a biological theory for the variation between species, research on life history evolution now encompasses psychological and sociological variation within the human species that has long been the stock and trade of social scientific study. The eighteen chapters of this book review six disciplines, eighteen authors, and eighty-two volumes published between 1734 and 2015—re-reading the texts in the light of life history evolution. . ER -