Friendship: development, ecology, and evolution of a relationship
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Main Author: Hruschka, Daniel J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2010
Series:Origins of human behavior and culture 5
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-369) and index
Introduction: The adaptive significance of friendship -- An outline of friendship -- Friendships across cultures -- Friendship and kinship -- Sex, romance, and friendship -- Friendship : childhood to adulthood -- The development of friendships -- Friendship, culture, and ecology -- Playing with friends
Friends-they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental, and ethnographic data to understand the broad meaning of friendship, how it develops, how it interfaces with kinship and romantic relationships, and how it differs from place to place. Hruschka argues that friendship is a special form of reciprocal altruism base
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 383 pages)
ISBN:0520947886
9780520947887

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