By Crespi, Bernard J., Summers, Kyle, Alexander, Richard D.
Richard D. Alexander is an entire entomologist who grew to become his consciousness to fixing essentially the most complicated difficulties linked to the evolution of human social structures. utilizing impeccable Darwinian good judgment and elaborating, extending and including to the vintage theoretical contributions of pioneers of behavioral and evolutionary ecology like George Williams, William Hamilton and Robert Trivers, Alexander constructed the main special and accomplished imaginative and prescient of human social evolution of his period. His rules and hypotheses have encouraged numerous biologists, anthropologists, psychologists and different social scientists to discover the evolution of human social habit in ever larger element, and lots of of his seminal rules have stood the try out of time and are available to be pillars of our knowing of human social evolution. This quantity offers vintage papers or chapters via Dr. Alexander, each one considering an incredible subject from his paintings. Introductions by way of Dr. Alexander's former scholars and co-workers spotlight the significance of his paintings to the sector, describe newer paintings at the subject, and talk about present problems with rivalry and curiosity.
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ALEXANDER, 2011 Richard D. Alexander is a farmer and rancher, horse trainer, poet, story teller, folk singer, song writer, musician, author, and a philosopher, as well as a husband (to Lorrie Alexander), a parent, and a grandparent. He and his wife have run a large farm in Manchester, Michigan for more than thirty-five years. Alexander grew up in rural Illinois, the child of two school teachers turned livestock farmers. His childhood passed without many of the conveniences of modern life, such as electricity and indoor plumbing.
Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem. Nature 432:499–502. Price, M. 2005. Punitive sentiment among the Shuar and in industrialized societies: Cross-cultural similarities. Evol. Hum. Behav. 26:279–287. Puurtinen, M. and Mappes, T. 2009. Between-group competition and human cooperation. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 276:355–360. Rockenbach, B. and Milinski, M. 2006. The efficient interaction of indirect reciprocity and costly punishment. -J. and Milinski, M.
Four Chapter 4, by David Queller, introduces an article that represents Alexander’s (1974) first exposition of general theory for the evolution of social behavior across all animals, including humans. Queller was a doctoral student with Alexander, and has since gone on to become one of the foremost researchers working on social evolution, in organisms from plants to wasps to slime molds to humans. He describes how Alexander’s (1974) paper, integrating nepotism, reciprocity, and his new idea—parental manipulation—served as a nexus for future theory and research, which included extensions, inspiration, presages of much-later developments such as skew theory, and ultimately constructive assaults.