Evolution Of Social System
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Evolution Of Social System

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Evolution Of Social System

About this book

In 'The Evolution of Social Systems' J.P. Scott for the first time combines genetic theories of evolution, system theory and theories of behavioural evolution to explain the evolution of social behaviour and organisation. He proposes that caregiving has evolved from self care, to care of fertilised eggs, to developing embryos, to hatchlings. Care may then be extended to adult offspring, collateral relatives and to unrelated others. Humans, Scott shows, ae unique in the degree to which caregiving behaviour is extendable to nonrelated humans, other animals as pets, and even to plants. He concludes that social organisation is based on caregiving as well as processes such as unconscious physiological cooperation, site attachment, sexual behaviour, defensive behaviour, competition and conflict. Competition is thus not the sole mode of evolution. This view challenges some of the conventional sociobiological theories of the evolution of altruism. The book's broad interdisciplinary scope and social relevance has significant import for the general reader as well as for researchers and students in evolution, animal behaviour, ecology, psychobiology, and the human sciences of anthropology, political science and sociology.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2026
Topic
Psychology
eBook ISBN
9781040896068
Subtopic
Social Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Title page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Chapter I Evolution and Systems Theory
  11. Chapter II The Nature of Genetic Systems
  12. Chapter III Processes of Change in Genetic Systems
  13. Chapter IV Genetic Evolutionary Theories and the Use of Appropriate Models
  14. Chapter V The Evolution of Physiological Systems
  15. Chapter VI On Theories of Organic Evolution and their Relevance to Modern Genetic-Systems Theory
  16. Chapter VII On the Evolution of Behavior
  17. Chapter VIII On Current Theories of the Evolution of Social Behavior and Social Systems: Evolution in Terms of Genetic-Systems Theory
  18. Chapter IX The Evolution of Cooperation and Competition
  19. Chapter X On the Evolution of Social Organization
  20. Chapter XI On Cultural Evolution
  21. Chapter XII On Eco-evolution: Change in Ecosystems
  22. Chapter XIII On the Future of Evolutionary Theories: The Evolution of Evolution
  23. References
  24. Author Index
  25. Subject Index

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