Animal and Human Conduct (Psychology Library Editions: Comparative Psychology)

Among lower Vertebrates -- Among birds -- Among mammals -- Chapter 11: Maladaptive Activity Resulting in Self·Injury -- Among invertebrates -- Chapter 12: Self-Injury (con.): Among Birds -- Extinction of species promoted by maladaptive activity -- Self-injury due to defective fear -- Chapter 13: Self-Injury (con.): Among Mammals -- Under-activity in the presence of danger -- Over-activity in the presence of danger -- Due to rage -- Chapter 14: Maladaptive Activity in Monkeys and Apes -- Extent of activity resulting in excessiveness: in food-taking -- In maternal solicitude -- Misdirection of activities resulting in self-injury -- In injury to kind -- Self-injury from normal types of action -- Chapter 15: Maladaptive Activity Among Low-Cultured Human Beings -- Food-taking among savages -- savage festivals -- Misdirected activities -- For securing food -- Compared with brute activity -- Chapter 16: Maladaptive Activity Among High-Cultured Human Beings -- Our verdict on our own activities -- common knowledge of maladaptation -- Maladaptive activity as corrected by science -- Maladaptive reproductive and sexual activities in the human species -- Reproductive maladaptive activity -- over-population -- Dangers to the mother in child-bearing -- Dangers arising from relation of offspring to parents -- Maladaptive sexual activity -- Chapter 17: The Elements of Man's Physical Structure Which Enable him to be the Most Actively Adaptive of all Living Beings -- Structural and functional aspect -- Evolutional aspect -- Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: William E. Ritter
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 03, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 346 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0815367473
• | ISBN-13: 9780815367475