Examines the role of biological sciences in the study of human behavior.
Preface The Case of Biosociology Genetics and Human Behavior The Brain and Its Environment Emotion and the Autonomic and Endocrine Systems Intelligence and Society Sexual Dimorphism and Sex-Role Behavior Human Sexuality and Evolution The Nature and Nurture of Criminality Love, Marriage, and the Family References Index
ANTHONY WALSH is currently Professor of Criminal Justice at Boise State University, in Idaho. His research interests include any social-psychological topic that can be informed by biological concepts, particularly IQ and crime. Walsh is the author or coauthor of nine other books and over 60 journal articles or essays.
?Because of the sheer mass of the research reviewed, the engaging
style, the numerous exciting connections established between
biological processess and behavioral phenomena of great substantive
interest, and the low key, matter-of-fact way in which some of the
most controversial topics related to the interface of biology with
the social sciences are presented, this book will startle and
confound sociologists and others who thought their field could
remain forever isolated from biology and the rest of the natural
sciences. It will educate, comfort, and encourage the growing group
of social scientists who, even within sociology-traditionally the
most biophobic discipline-are working at elucidating the links
between biology and behavior.?-Politics and the Life Sciences
"Because of the sheer mass of the research reviewed, the engaging
style, the numerous exciting connections established between
biological processess and behavioral phenomena of great substantive
interest, and the low key, matter-of-fact way in which some of the
most controversial topics related to the interface of biology with
the social sciences are presented, this book will startle and
confound sociologists and others who thought their field could
remain forever isolated from biology and the rest of the natural
sciences. It will educate, comfort, and encourage the growing group
of social scientists who, even within sociology-traditionally the
most biophobic discipline-are working at elucidating the links
between biology and behavior."-Politics and the Life Sciences
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