Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development

  • Book
  • © 1988

Overview

Editors:
  1. Kevin B. MacDonald

    1. Department of Psychology, California State University-Long Beach, Long Beach, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Theoretical Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Interfaces Between Sociobiology and Developmental Psychology

      • Kevin B. MacDonald
      Pages 3-23

    3. Resources and Resource Acquisition During Ontogeny

      • William R. Charlesworth
      Pages 24-77

    4. Toward a Developmental Evolutionary Ecology of Humans

      • James S. Chisholm
      Pages 78-102

  3. The Domains of Children’s Behavior: The Self, Moral Development, Altruism, Aggression, Peer Relations, and Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N1-N1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. On the Evolution of Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception

      • Dennis Krebs, Kathy Denton, Nancy C. Higgins
      Pages 103-139

    3. Sociobiology and the Cognitive-Developmental Tradition in Moral Development Research

      • Kevin B. MacDonald
      Pages 140-167

    4. Cooperation, Competition, and Altruism in Human Twinships: A Sociobiological Approach

      • Nancy L. Segal
      Pages 168-206

    5. Observations on Adolescence

      • Glenn E. Weisfeld, Robin L. Billings
      Pages 207-233

    6. Psychological Development: Epigenetic Rules and Gene-Culture Coevolution

      • Charles J. Lumsden
      Pages 234-267

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 397-405
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, California State University-Long Beach, Long Beach, USA

    Kevin B. MacDonald

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development

  • Editors: Kevin B. MacDonald

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3760-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8338-6Published: 23 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3760-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 405

  • Topics: Psychology Research, Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation