Sociality, hierarchy, health comparative biodemography : a collection of papers / National Research Council (U.S.) ; Maxine Weinstein and Meredith A. Lane, editors, Committee on Population Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.), author.

Contributor:

Weinstein, Maxine, editor.

Lane, Meredith A., editor.

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Examinations, questions, etc.

Biology.

Behavioral assessment--Moral and ethical aspects.

Behavioral assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Sociality, Hierarchy, Health: Comparative Biodemography is a collection of papers that examine cross-species comparisons of social environments with a focus on social behaviors along with social hierarchies and connections, to examine their effects on health, longevity, and life histories. This report covers a broad spectrum of nonhuman animals, exploring a variety of measures of position in social hierarchies and social networks, drawing links among these factors to health outcomes and trajectories, and comparing them to those in humans. Sociality, Hierarchy, Health revisits both the theoretical underpinnings of biodemography and the empirical findings that have emerged over the past two decades."-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contributors""; ""Contents""; ""1 Sociality, Hierarchy, Health: Comparative Biodemography

Maxine Weinstein, Hillard Kaplan, and Meredith A. Lane""; ""2 Alleles, Mortality Schedules, and the Evolutionary Theory of Senescence

Kenneth W. Wachter""; ""3 Genes Revisited: The Biodemography of Social Environmental Variation Through a Functional Genomics Lens

Jenny Tung""; ""4 The Long Reach of History: Intergenerational and Transgenerational Pathways to Plasticity in Human Longevity

Christopher W. Kuzawa and Dan T.A. Eisenberg""

""5 Genomic and Evolutionary Challenges for Biodemography

Kenneth M. Weiss""""6 Evolutionary Perspectives on the Links Between Close Social Bonds, Health, and Fitness

Joan B. Silk""; ""7 Pathways of Survival and Social Structure During Human Transitions from the Darwinian World

Caleb Finch and Burton Singer""; ""8 Social and Economic Underpinnings of Human Biodemography

Paul L. Hooper, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan""

""9 Work to Live and Live to Work: Productivity, Transfers, and Psychological Well-Being in Adulthood and Old Age

Jonathan Stieglitz, Adrian V. Jaeggi, Aaron D. Blackwell, Benjamin C. Trumble, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan""""10 Intergenerational Transfers, Social Arrangements, Life Histories, and the Elderly

Ronald Lee""; ""11 Stress and Metabolic Disease

Karen K. Ryan""; ""12 Hierarchy and Connectedness as Determinants of Health and Longevity in Social Insects

Brian Johnson and James R. Carey""

""13 Biodemography of Ectothermic Tetrapods Provides Insights into the Evolution and Plasticity of Mortality Patterns

David A. W. Miller, Fredric J. Janzen, Gary M. Fellers, Patrick M. Kleeman, and Anne M. Bronikowski""""14 A Comparative Perspective on Reproductive Aging, Reproductive Cessation, Post-Reproductive Life, and Social Behavior

Peter T. Ellison and Mary Ann Ottinger""

""15 The Male-Female Health-Survival Paradox: A Comparative Perspective on Sex Differences in Aging and Mortality

Susan C. Alberts, Elizabeth A. Archie, Laurence R. Gesquiere, Jeanne Altmann, James W. Vaupel, and Kaare Christensen""""16 Of Baboons and Men: Social Circumstances, Biology, and the Social Gradient in Health

Michael G. Marmot and Robert Sapolsky""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed October 18, 2014).

ISBN:

9780309306645

0309306647

9780309306621

0309306620

OCLC:

923291517