Martin Daly, Margo Wilson

Homicide

Foundations of Human Behavior

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Martin Daly and Margo Wilson apply contemporary evolutionary theory to analysis of human motives and perceptions of self-interest, considering where and why individual interests conflict, using well-documented murder cases. This book attempts to understand normal social motives in murder as products of the process of evolution by natural selection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781138525207
• ISBN-10: 1138525200
• Artikelnr.: 69944261

Autorenporträt

Martin Daly, Margo Wilson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Homicide and Human Nature
2. Killing Kinfolks
3. Killing Children: I. Infanticide in the Ethnographic Record
4. Killing Children: II. Parental Homicide in the Modern West
5. Parricide: Killing Parents
6. Altercations and Honor
7. Why Men and Not Women?
8. The Logic of Same-Sex Conflict
9. Till Death Us Do Part
10. Retaliation and Revenge
11. Calling the Killers to Account
12. On Cultural Variation
Summary and Concluding Comments
References
Index