The Manliness of Evolutionary Biology

摘要

Mammalian biologists reading this book will find themselves on theoretically familiar terrain. Men features foundational concepts in evolutionary biology and life history theory. We see concepts of extrinsic mortality applied to understand human maleage-specific shifts in physiological function. We learn about the physiological mechanisms underpinning human male life history tradeoffs between survival and reproduction. What makes this book a nice contribution to our understanding of males is that itfocuses on the human mammal. Accordingly, biologists may find interesting the results of applying these theoretical perspectives to ourselves. And nonevolutionary-minded human biologists and more general audiences may find some new ways to conceptualizehow and why we males work.