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Endocrinology of Social Relationships
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Edited by:
Peter T. Ellison
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With contributions by:
Phyllis C. Lee
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English
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2012
About this book
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.
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The first volume to pull together the emerging field of human behavioral endocrinology as the product of a long evolutionary history exerting subtle influences throughout modern societies. The distinguished and authoritative assemblage of authors share their enthusiasm and leave no doubt that this will be an influential scientific discipline in the years to come.
-- Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards, University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
-- Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards, University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
The editors and their authors have produced a definitive and scholarly, yet readable, state-of-the-art presentation of a fascinating and timely topic. This landmark volume is rich in ideas, conclusions, and questions for the future. As the editors point out, we are all being exposed, like it or not, to hormones in the environment and to ads full of claims about the benefits of administering hormones. We need to understand how such hormones might (or might not) be affecting social relationships. Will spraying on some oxytocin make your colleagues like you? Probably not, but reading Endocrinology of Social Relationships produced warm feelings about the ability of good science to illuminate the human condition.
-- Elizabeth Adkins-Regan Science
-- Elizabeth Adkins-Regan Science
[This book] is an incredible resource for anyone who has studied or everwondered about the biological underpinnings of human's (or even non-human's) social interactions...In the past 15 years, there have been many studies published on the topic of hormones' roles in social relationships, but never before has there been one definitive volume that reviews the entire area with such a high degree of accuracy. Given that some developments within this area have been recent, the book represents a formidable effort to collect the modern work into one volume, and as a result, it will serve as a "go-to" text for many years.
-- Maryanne Fisher Evolutionary Psychology
-- Maryanne Fisher Evolutionary Psychology
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - 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
95 - 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
196 - 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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Contributors
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Index
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March 5, 2012
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512
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