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death, hope and sex,
This review is from: Death, Hope and Sex: Steps to an Evolutionary Ecology of Mind and Morality (Paperback)
Chisholm unites issues that rarely meet under one cover: attachment theory, reproductive strategies and evolutionary theory. The first chapter lays out the basis of evolutionary humanism. This chapter will interest many though it remains debatable whether Chisholm's arguments refute the naturalistic fallacy, as he contends. The second chapter on evolution and development provides a fantastic link between the intergenerational concerns of population geneticists and phenotypic focus of developmentalists. Remaining chapters investigate the role of attachment theory in influencing an individual's later reproductive strategy and, intertwining with attachment style, the influence of risk and uncertainty in shaping male and female reproductive strategies. Throughout, he explores the implication of his contention that, "the ultimate function of life is reproduction--that value itself originates in reproductive (fitness, continuance), not health, wealth, or happiness--evolutionary theory specifies the target at which we should aim," and more.
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Death, Hope and Sex: Steps to an Evolutionary Ecology of Mind and Morality by James S. Chisholm (Hardcover - September 28, 1999)
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