Its All in the Family

• K-Selection and r-Selection: Profound or Trivial? by James Brody, 6/28/97
  • Catfish in a Tank by James Brody, 10/18/97
    
    

Its good to see candid self-reports. These are not easy things to do, but they convey information that can be shared at a level not available in more formal talk. If evolutionary psychology is to touch our lives, then perhaps we should indeed show how our inner lives are part of the process.

Anyhow, I enjoyed reading the piece. Thanks, Jim.

Almost in this context, a student sent me something that others may find interesting: "AN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY OF THE FAMILY" by Stephen Emlen. Its reprinted from PNAS, and can be found on http://psych.lmu.edu/ahbe/family/emlen.htm. Maybe some of you more expert than I can find k's and r's in there. Here is a taste from Emlen's abstract:

"An evolutionary framework for viewing the formation, the stability, the organizational structure, and the social dynamics of biological families is developed. This framework is based upoon three conceptual pillars: ecological constraints theory, inclusive fitness theory, and reproductive skew theory.............."

I have not fully digested the full text, but found it interesting. As they say: FYI.

John

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