This collection of essays looks at sexuality and reproduction from an evolutionary perspective. Covering experimental discoveries as well as theoretical investigations, the volume explores the relationship between evolution and other areas of human behaviour.
Introduction, Filomena de Sousa, Gonzalo Munévar; Part I Reproduction,
Mortality and Evolution;
Chapter 1 From Birth to Death: The Evolution of Life
Histories in Guppies (Poecilia Reticulata), David. N. Reznick;
Chapter 2 If
We Have Sex, Do We Have to Die?, Ronald de Sousa; Part II Reproduction
without Sex?;
Chapter 3 The Genomic Consequences of Asexual Reproduction, Ken
Kraaijeveld, Jens Bast;
Chapter 4 Evolution and Illusion, Jagdish
Hattiangadi; Part III Sex without Reproduction?;
Chapter 5 Evolutionary
Theory, Constructivism and Male Homosexuality, Pieter R. Adriaens, Andreas De
Block, Lesley Newson;
Chapter 6 Darwinism and Homosexuality, Gonzalo Munévar;
Chapter 7 The Evolution of Female Orgasm: New Evidence and Response to
Feminist Critiques, Elisabeth A. Lloyd; Part IV Sexual Selection and
Morality;
Chapter 8 Altruism and Sexual Selection, Lucrecia Burges, Camilo J.
Cela-Conde, Marcos Nadal;
Chapter 9 The Role of Sex and Reproduction in the
Evolution of Morality and Law, Julia Sandra Bernal; partV Sex, Reproduction
and Evolutionary Psychology;
Chapter 10 Symmetry and Evolution: A Genomic
Antagonism Approach, William M. Brown;
Chapter 11 Beauty, Bacteria and the
Faustian Bargain, Victor S. Johnston; partVI Eugenics from Natural to Social
Selection;
Chapter 12 DarwinS Care for Humanity, Eve-Marie Engels;
Chapter
13 Reproduction and Social Selection: The Eugenics Maelstrom of Science,
Intelligentsia and Reformers, Filomena de Sousa;
Filomena de Sousa is Research Associate in the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. She received her PhD in philosophy from Université du Québec à Montréal followed by FCT postdoctoral and research fellowships at ISEG- Technical University of Lisbon, and is Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Her research includes evolutionary and cognitive concepts in social sciences and economics, ethical implications of biological and social engineering in human reproduction, eugenics, as well as topics in history and philosophy of science and method in social sciences and economics as reflected in publications and lectures listed on http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/equipa/3_cfcul_elegiveis/filomena_sousa/filomenasousa.h tm., Gonzalo Munévar is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lawrence Technological University. He received his PhD in Philosophy of Science at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Paul Feyerabend. As a visitor he has done research or taught at many universities around the world, including Stanford, the University of Washington, Irvine, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Newcastle (Australia) and Kobe Shodai (Japan). He is presently engaged in experimental and theoretical research in cognitive neuroscience. Other interests include evolution, space exploration, philosophy of science and writing fiction. He has published many books, including Radical Knowledge (1981); Evolution and the Naked Truth (1998); The Worst Enemy of Science? (ed. with J. Preston and D. Lamb, 2000); and the novel The Master of Fate (2000). A list of publications is available at http://www.ltu.edu/arts_sciences/humanities_ss_comm/Dr_Gonzalo_Munevar.asp.
