Genetic Diversity and Human Behavior

by J.N. Spuhler

Overview

Genetic differences in humans, like those between individuals of any animal or plant species and those between species, are all products of the evolutionary development of the living world. These differences, with their behavioral consequences, can only be understood in the light of evolution. Our understanding of evolution, however, has itself evolved. The Darwin- Wallace theory of evolution appeared in the nineteenth century. Since then, development of evolutionary thought has gone through several stages. The contributions in this volume describe those stages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202363080
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	04/15/2009
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

PREFACE, ON TYPES, GENOTYPES, AND THE GENETIC DIVERSITY IN POPULATIONS, INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING AND THE DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN VARIATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL PHENOTYPES, BEHAVIOR GENETICS AND OVERPARTICULARIZATION: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, BEHAVIOR GENETICS AS THE STUDY OF MECHANISM-SPECIFIC BEHAVIOR, SENSE PERCEPTION AND BEHAVIOR, SELECTION AND GENETIC HETEROGENEITY, HEREDITARY FACTORS I N PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES IN MAN, WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON COGNITION, RELATION OF BEHAVIORAL, GENETIC, AND NEUROENDOCRINE FACTORS TO THYROID FUNCTION, GENETICS AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CROSS-POPULATION CONSTANCY IN TRAIT PROFILES AND THE STUDY OF THE INHERITANCE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR VARIABLES, IMPLICATIONS OF PRIMATE PALEONTOLOGY FOR BEHAVIOR, HUMAN GENETICS AND THE THEME PATTERN OF HUMAN LIFE, BEHAVIOR AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION, BEHAVIOR AND MATING PATTERNS IN HUMAN POPULATIONS, BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES OF GENETIC DIFFERENCES IN MAN: A SUMMARY, INDEX

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[F]or professional behavior geneticists and their graduate students.” —J. P. Scott, Science

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