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'Geographic Variation in Behavior' explores the evolution of geographic variation in behaviour within species. The contributors have pioneered a variety of approaches to using geographically variable behavioural phenotypes for addressing evolutionary issues. They summarize advances in the field to date, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches, and give a clear and balanced overview of this area.

Animal behavior --- Animals --- Animal ecology. --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Animal variation --- Variation (Biology) --- Behavior evolution --- Evolution. --- Variation. --- Variation --- Animal genetics. Animal evolution --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Zoogeography

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People, as Aristotle said, are political animals. That we are animals means that we share with other social mammals a concern for children, and family relationships, that are too often neglected in mainstream political philosophy. That we are political means that we seek to govern ourselves through consultation and mutual adjustment. This text argues for the significance of social bonds that ignore or transcend state authority. As political animals we have, in effect, domesticated ourselves. Understanding both the pros and cons of domesticity, we have a better chance of peace, with each other and the living world. Being and living like the animals we are is a more congenial prospect than is usually, and ignorantly supposed.

Social ethics --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Political science --- -Biopolitics --- Bioethics --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Political behavior --- Human behavior --- Sociobiology --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Philosophy --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Bioethics. --- Biopolitics. --- Philosophy. --- Biopolitics --- Political philosophy

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What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males. In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order. Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.

Primates --- Women --- Feminism. --- Sociobiology. --- Sex role. --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Biologism --- Human biology --- Human evolution --- Psychology, Comparative --- Social evolution --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Evolution. --- Social aspects --- Emancipation --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles

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Genetic psychology --- Psychology. --- Biological Evolution. --- Gender Identity. --- Genetic psychology. --- Gender --- Man's Role --- Men's Role --- Woman's Role --- Women's Role --- Gender Role --- Sex Role --- Gender Identities --- Gender Roles --- Identity, Gender --- Role, Man's --- Role, Men's --- Role, Sex --- Role, Woman's --- Role, Women's --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Men's --- Roles, Sex --- Roles, Woman's --- Roles, Women's --- Sex Roles --- Woman's Roles --- Women's Roles --- Evolution, Biological --- Factors, Psychological --- Psychological Factors --- Psychological Side Effects --- Psychologists --- Psychosocial Factors --- Side Effects, Psychological --- Factor, Psychological --- Factor, Psychosocial --- Factors, Psychosocial --- Psychological Factor --- Psychological Side Effect --- Psychologist --- Psychosocial Factor --- Side Effect, Psychological --- Human genetics --- Psychology --- Transgender Persons --- Sociobiology