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Evolution and Human Behavior

John CartwrightList of FiguresList of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments1 Historical Introduction: Evolution and Theories of Mind andBehaviour, Darwin and After1.1 The origin of species1.1.1 New foundations1.2 The study of animal behaviour1.2.1 Comparative psychology and ethology: the19th-century origins1.2.2 Ethology and comparative psychology in the20th century1.2.3 Interactions between comparativepsychology and ethology1.3 Evolution and theories of human behaviour: Darwinand after1.3.1 Man the moral animal1.3.2 Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)1.3.3 Evolution in America: Morgan, Baldwin and

James

1.3.4 Galton and the rise of the eugenics

movement

1.4 The triumph of culture1.4.1 Franz Boas1.4.2 The Revolt against eugenics1.4.3 Behaviourism as an alternative resting place1.5 The rise of sociobiology and evolutionary

psychologySummary

Further reading2 Darwin's Legacy2.1 The mechanism of Darwinian evolution2.1.1 The ghosts of Lamarckism2.1.2 The central dogma in a modern form2.2 Darwin's difficulties2.2.1 The problem of altruism

2.3.2 The testing of hypotheses2.4 Adaptions and fitness: then and now2.4.1 Evolutionary psychology or Darwiniananthropology?2.4.2 Orders of explanation in evolutionarythinkingSummaryFurther reading3 The Selfish Gene3.1 Some basic principles of genetics3.1.1 The genetic code3.1.2 From genes to behaviour: some warnings3.2 The unit of natural selection3.2.1 The lure and failure of group selection3.2.2 The unit of selection: replicators andvehicles3.3 Kin selection and altruism3.3.1 Hamilton's rule3.3.2 Coefficient of relatedness3.3.3 Application of Hamilton's rule and kinselection3.4 Kin recognition3.4.1 Kin recognition and discrimination3.4.2 Outbreeding: incest taboos and theWestermarck effect3.5 Reciprocal altruism3.5.1 Altruism and selfishness3.5.2 Reciprocal altruism, or time-delayed discretemutualism3.5.3 Conditions for the existence of reciprocalaltruism3.5.4 True altruism and pseudo-altruism: genesand vehicles revisitedSummaryFurther reading4 Mating Behaviour: From Systems to Strategies4.1 Why sex?4.1.1 The costs of sex4.1.2 The lottery principle4.1.3 The tangled bank hypothesis, or spatialheterogeneity4.1.4 The Red Queen hypothesis