UID:
almafu_9961433508502883
Format:
1 online resource (512 p.)
ISBN:
9780674272514
Content:
In social relationships—whether between mates, parents and offspring, or friends—we find much of life’s meaning. But in these relationships, so critical to our well-being, might we also detect the workings, even directives, of biology? This book, a rare melding of human and animal research and theoretical and empirical science, ventures into the most interesting realms of behavioral biology to examine the intimate role of endocrinology in social relationships. The importance of hormones to reproductive behavior—from breeding cycles to male sexual display—is well known. What this book considers is the increasing evidence that hormones are just as important to social behavior. Peter Ellison and Peter Gray include the latest findings—both practical and theoretical—on the hormonal component of both casual interactions and fundamental bonds. The contributors, senior scholars and rising scientists whose work is shaping the field, go beyond the proximate mechanics of neuroendocrine physiology to integrate behavioral endocrinology with areas such as reproductive ecology and life history theory. Ranging broadly across taxa, from birds and rodents to primates, the volume pays particular attention to human endocrinology and social relationships, a focus largely missing from most works of behavioral endocrinology.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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PART ONE Theoretical and Empirical Context --
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1 Evolution and Ecological Diversity in Animal Mating and Parenting Systems --
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2 Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Social Relationships --
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3 Social Relationships and Reproductive Ecology --
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4 Hormone-Behavior Interrelationships in a Changing Environment --
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5 The Endocrinology of the Human Adaptive Complex --
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PART TWO Social Relationships among Nonhuman Animals --
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6 The Endocrinology of Social Relationships in Rodents --
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7 The Endocrinology of Family Relationships in Biparental Monkeys --
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8 Hormonal and Neurochemical Influences on Aggression in Group-Living Monkeys --
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9 The Endocrinology of Intersexual Relationships in the Apes --
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PART THREE Social Relationships among Humans --
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10 Human Sex Differences in Social Relationships: Organizational and Activational Effects of Androgens --
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11 The Role of Sex Hormones in the Initiation of Human Mating Relationships --
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12 Human Male Testosterone, Pair-Bonding, and Fatherhood --
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13 Neurobiology of Human Maternal Care --
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14 Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Human Social Behavior --
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15 Androgens and Diversity in Adult Human Partnering --
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16 Early Life Influences on the Ontogeny of the Neuroendocrine Stress Response in the Human Child --
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References --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674272514
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674272514?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674272514
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674272514?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674272514
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