A list of puns related to "Sociobiology"
Some say that EP is just the new name for SB. If true, can an evolutionary psychologist call themselves a sociobiologist?
This seems a bit far fetched because they wouldn't be a biologist by training, just as the SB isn't a psychologist by training.
Hello people of the internet. I am an archaeologist, university instructor and long-time player of Dungeons and Dragons. I've recently taken an interest in contextualizing the fantasy races of D&D in terms of evolutionary theory, and I wanted to share with you short article on the subject. It is directed primarily at dungeon masters, world builders and people interested in learning more about how anthropologists approach the study of human beings.
Enjoy!
The fantasy race that want to tackle in this article is Orcs. Orcs are a perennial bane of low level adventuring parties. They are immensely strong and physically tough, on top of being brutish and cruel. Artistic depictions of orcs, from across various editions of the game, show them with prominent tusk like teeth. The question is: how did orcs acquire these impressive teeth?
Sexual Selection
To answer this question I need to introduce the idea of sexual selection. The principles of sexual selection were outlined by Charles Darwin to explain the persistence of traits that seemed to have no survival advantage or were even likely to hinder the survival of an organism. Sexual selection also allows biologists to explain why males and females of the same species differ in colouration, size, weaponry, and ornamentation - a condition called sexual dimorphism. The archetypal example of sexual selection in action is the peacock's resplendent tail plumage. While stunningly beautiful, the peacock's tail is heavy and ungainly, making it difficult for the peacock to move quickly or fly effectively. Its bright colouration also makes it difficult for peacocks to hide from predators. It is hard to understand how such a liability would evolve in the first place, let alone persist generation after generation. A vital clue lies in peahen morphology - the females of the species. Peahens lack the tail plumage of peacocks and their colouration is much more subdued, tending towards browns and whites, so as to allow them to more easily blend into their environments and avoid predators.
So what explains the difference? Surely, both sexes have an incentive to avoid being eaten. The answer lays in the fact that each sex competes in its own way to reproduce and pass its genes into the next generation. In most species the reproductive success of males is linked to their ability to acquire mates - a process which often involves some form of competition between males - what we call intra-sexual competition. Over gen
... keep reading on reddit ➡I am Brazilian and here there is very little material in Portuguese on sociobiology, psychology and evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ethology and so on. It is very difficult to find any content that explains human behavior from an evolutionary perspective.
I know that in the United States anthropology is divided into "four fields", which also includes bioanthropology, so North American students of anthropology and social sciences have contact, even if brief, with evolutionary approaches to human behavior.
But here in Brazil we don't have this division, here anthropology is just cultural anthropology, bioanthropology is something that doesn't even cross our minds, almost as a blasphemer to be mentioned in classes and discussions. And with the scarce material in Portuguese, it ends up alienating potential students and people interested in the subject, who only read things about it from critics, who misrepresent almost all the facts.
I am a student of social sciences and I have been studying and collecting materials independently for some years. Almost everything I find is in English, so instead of trying to translate I found it more interesting to create an introductory book on evolutionary anthropology (which would also encompass sociobiology, human behavioral ethology and evolutionary psychology). The book is already a little over 100 pages long, I have already talked about the evolutionary theories of culture and altruism (although the chapter is unfinished) and I am looking for tips on subjects that you think are indispensable about sociobiology, evolutionary psychology / anthropology and human behavioral ethology. .
Thank you very much for your future help.
So as the title says, I've been interested about sociobiology and I wanted to know if you have any recommendations on books/articles/pages where they talk about it. If you want an example of a topic, courtship behaviour of humans would be considered as one (but I wanna know about more things than just sex lol). Thanks for the help!
Does the main idea of sociobiology found on Darwin's theory of evolution is: Our behaviors is linked to our genetics. Or does the main idea of sociobiology is : Only the the fitness who can survive?
Thank you in advance for your answers. I'm taking online class on edx :( Introduction to sociology) and sometimes I find it so difficult to understand some theories especialy that english is not my native language
Just out of curiosity, if there are any people working on evolutionary biology in here, what do you think of sociobiology? Do you think it's rigorous enough to count as a science of human behaviour? Is it too adaptationist?
... which in a nutshell, means evolution theory applied to humans, both individually, and their societies.
Feature Item (entertaining speech by Prf. Ed Dutton)
Why are Conservative Girls So Attractive and Liberal Girls So Ugly? 35 min
Ethnocentric groups always win; the religious girls are a "remnant" (17:50) of the normal population (surviving from pre-Industrial Age (pre-1800++) that would have survived Darwinian Selection, the 10%) 19:34 the Industrial Age of cultural safety is the age of 'Mutational Load'.
Conclusions derivable from Dutton's excellent speech: Join the Remnant, wait for the Mutants of 'Woke'ness to fade away. In the shorter term, persons of Dutton's Remnant, are less stressed over problems (both real ones and fake ones, like 'overpopulation', ready to fight for what was theirs "TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK").
Hello people of the internet. I am an archaeologist, university instructor and long-time player of Dungeons and Dragons. I've recently taken an interest in contextualizing the fantasy races of D&D in terms of evolutionary theory, and I wanted to share with you short article on the subject. It is directed primarily at dungeon masters, world builders and people interested in learning more about how anthropologists approach the study of human beings.
Enjoy!
The fantasy race that want to tackle in this article is Orcs. Orcs are a perennial bane of low level adventuring parties. They are immensely strong and physically tough, on top of being brutish and cruel. Artistic depictions of orcs, from across various editions of the game, show them with prominent tusk like teeth. The question is: how did orcs acquire these impressive teeth?
Sexual Selection
To answer this question I need to introduce the idea of sexual selection. The principles of sexual selection were outlined by Charles Darwin to explain the persistence of traits that seemed to have no survival advantage or were even likely to hinder the survival of an organism. Sexual selection also allows biologists to explain why males and females of the same species differ in colouration, size, weaponry, and ornamentation - a condition called sexual dimorphism. The archetypal example of sexual selection in action is the peacock's resplendent tail plumage. While stunningly beautiful, the peacock's tail is heavy and ungainly, making it difficult for the peacock to move quickly or fly effectively. Its bright colouration also makes it difficult for peacocks to hide from predators. It is hard to understand how such a liability would evolve in the first place, let alone persist generation after generation. A vital clue lies in peahen morphology - the females of the species. Peahens lack the tail plumage of peacocks and their colouration is much more subdued, tending towards browns and whites, so as to allow them to more easily blend into their environments and avoid predators.
So what explains the difference? Surely, both sexes have an incentive to avoid being eaten. The answer lays in the fact that each sex competes in its own way to reproduce and pass its genes into the next generation. In most species the reproductive success of males is linked to their ability to acquire mates - a process which often involves some form of competition between males - what we call intra-sexual competition. Over gen
... keep reading on reddit ➡I am Brazilian and here there is very little material in Portuguese on sociobiology, psychology and evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ethology and so on. It is very difficult to find any content that explains human behavior from an evolutionary perspective.
I know that in the United States, anthropology is divided into "four fields", which also includes bioanthropology, so North American students of anthropology and social sciences have contact, even if brief, with evolutionary approaches to human behavior.
But here in Brazil we don't have this division, here anthropology is just cultural anthropology, bioanthropology is something that doesn't even cross our minds, almost as a blasphemer to be mentioned in classes and discussions. And with the scarce material in Portuguese, it ends up alienating potential students and people interested in the subject, who only read things about it from critics, who misrepresent almost all the facts.
I am a student of social sciences and I have been studying and collecting materials independently for some years. Almost everything I find is in English, so instead of trying to translate I found it more interesting to create an introductory book on evolutionary anthropology (which would also encompass sociobiology, human behavioral ethology and evolutionary psychology). The book is already a little over 100 pages long, I have already talked about the evolutionary theories of culture and altruism (although the chapter is unfinished) and I am looking for tips on subjects that you think are indispensable about sociobiology, evolutionary psychology / anthropology and human behavioral ethology.
Thank you very much for your future help.
Hello people of the internet. I am an archaeologist, university instructor and long-time player of Dungeons and Dragons. I've recently taken an interest in contextualizing the fantasy races of D&D in terms of evolutionary theory, and I wanted to share with you short article on the subject. It is directed primarily at dungeon masters, world builders and people interested in learning more about how anthropologists approach the study of human beings.
Enjoy!
The fantasy race that want to tackle in this article is Orcs. Orcs are a perennial bane of low level adventuring parties. They are immensely strong and physically tough, on top of being brutish and cruel. Artistic depictions of orcs, from across various editions of the game, show them with prominent tusk like teeth. The question is: how did orcs acquire these impressive teeth?
Sexual Selection
To answer this question I need to introduce the idea of sexual selection. The principles of sexual selection were outlined by Charles Darwin to explain the persistence of traits that seemed to have no survival advantage or were even likely to hinder the survival of an organism. Sexual selection also allows biologists to explain why males and females of the same species differ in colouration, size, weaponry, and ornamentation - a condition called sexual dimorphism. The archetypal example of sexual selection in action is the peacock's resplendent tail plumage. While stunningly beautiful, the peacock's tail is heavy and ungainly, making it difficult for the peacock to move quickly or fly effectively. Its bright colouration also makes it difficult for peacocks to hide from predators. It is hard to understand how such a liability would evolve in the first place, let alone persist generation after generation. A vital clue lies in peahen morphology - the females of the species. Peahens lack the tail plumage of peacocks and their colouration is much more subdued, tending towards browns and whites, so as to allow them to more easily blend into their environments and avoid predators.
So what explains the difference? Surely, both sexes have an incentive to avoid being eaten. The answer lays in the fact that each sex competes in its own way to reproduce and pass its genes into the next generation. In most species the reproductive success of males is linked to their ability to acquire mates - a process which often involves some form of competition between males - what we call intra-sexual competition. Over gen
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