Margaret Gruter and Paul Bohannan, Eds.
1982, 205 pages
The scholars represented in this volume - biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, lawyers - are searching for the links between biological principals, behavior, and the values of modern social and legal systems, without seeking anything as simplistic as direct causal links.
This book provides an introductory look into this immensely subtle problem, and begins the process of setting up models of behavior leading to social order, and to complex ideas of law, reward and sanctions.
Social science has long assumed a biological basis for individual behavior, but has found the biological basis for ethics, morality, and religion to be more obscure. For years we have looked at law and legal behavior without understanding its roots in biology and culture. This book examines the possibility of biological precursors to individual legal behavior and human social organization-in human anatomy (especially the brain), in behavior of non-human primates, in body chemistry such as endorphins, in human history, and in cultural modes of expressing dominance and social control.
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Front Matter
Margaret Gruter and Paul Bohannan
Includes: Table of Contents, List of Participants, and Foreward by Ernst Schuerman.
