The Systematics and Evolutionary Perspectives of Fossil Fungi

Evolutionary psychology and behavioral endocrinology provide complementary perspectives on interpreting human behavior and psychology. Hormones can function as underlying mechanisms that influence behavior in functional ways. Understanding these proximate mechanisms can inform ultimate explanations of human psychology. This chapter introduces this edited volume by first discussing evolutionary perspectives in behavioral endocrinology. It then briefly addresses three broad topic areas of behavioral endocrinology: (1) development and survival, (2) reproductive behavior, and (3) social and affective behavior. It provides examples of research within each of these areas and describes potential adaptations. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the importance of integrating mechanisms with function when investigating human behavior and psychology.

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EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ARE NOT RELEVANT FOR PERSONALITY

Great Myths of Personality ◽

10.1002/9781118851715.ch4 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 43-50

Keyword(s):

Evolutionary Perspectives

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‘Short-Spanned Living Creatures’: Evolutionary Perspectives in Rhoda Broughton’s Not Wisely, but Too Well (1867)

Journal of Victorian Culture ◽

10.1093/jvcult/vcaa040 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

James Aaron Green

Keyword(s):

Natural Selection ◽

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Simple Structure ◽

Charles Darwin ◽

Origin Of Species ◽

Charles Lyell ◽

Crystal Palace ◽

The Status ◽

The Individual ◽

Evolutionary Perspectives

Abstract In Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863), Charles Lyell appraised the distinct contribution made by his protégé, Charles Darwin (On the Origin of Species (1859)), to evolutionary theory: ‘Progression … is not a necessary accompaniment of variation and natural selection [… Darwin’s theory accounts] equally well for what is called degradation, or a retrogressive movement towards a simple structure’. In Rhoda Broughton’s first novel, Not Wisely, but Too Well (1867), written contemporaneously with Lyell’s book, the Crystal Palace at Sydenham prompts precisely this sort of Darwinian ambivalence to progress; but whether British civilization ‘advance[s] or retreat[s]’, her narrator adds that this prophesized state ‘will not be in our days’ – its realization exceeds the single lifespan. This article argues that Not Wisely, but Too Well is attentive to the irreconcilability of Darwinism to the Victorian ‘idea of progress’: Broughton’s novel, distinctly from its peers, raises the retrogressive and nihilistic potentials of Darwin’s theory and purposes them to reflect on the status of the individual in mid-century Britain.

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Almost‐Maximization as a Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Static, Dynamic and Evolutionary Perspectives

Review of Industrial Organization ◽

10.1007/s11151-019-09727-0 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 237-258

Author(s):

Huw Dixon

Keyword(s):

Dynamic Behavior ◽

Firm Behavior ◽

Theory Of The Firm ◽

Behavioral Theory ◽

Price Rigidity ◽

Price Setting ◽

Term Survival ◽

Sales Revenue ◽

Evolutionary Perspectives

Abstract In this paper we consider the effect of epsilon maximization on firm behavior. In particular we focus on the dynamic behavior of firms with the use of the example of price‐setting: We show how almost-rational firms can be more volatile in their behavior. However, if a lexicographic preference for simplicity is made, then we can explain nominal price rigidity as a result of epsilon optimization. The behavior of the firm—which is consistent with its long‐term survival—is examined. We argue that epsilon-optimization is consistent with survival in any context in which something is optimized: such as sales revenue.

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