Law, Biology and Culture: The Evolution of Law Margaret Gruter and Paul Bohannan, Eds. 1982, 205 pages The scholars represented in this volume - biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, lawyers - are searching for the links between biological principals, behavior, and the values of modern social and legal systems, without seeking anything as simplistic as direct causal links. This book provides an introductory look into this immensely subtle problem, and begins the process of setting up models of behavior leading to social order, and to complex ideas of law, reward and sanctions. Social science has long assumed a biological basis for individual behavior, but has found the biological basis for ethics, morality, and religion to be more obscure. For years we have looked at law and legal behavior without understanding its roots in biology and culture. This book examines the possibility of biological precursors to individual legal behavior and human social organization-in human anatomy (especially the brain), in behavior of non-human primates, in body chemistry such as endorphins, in human history, and in cultural modes of expressing dominance and social control.

Contents

Cover: Law, Biology and Culture Margaret Gruter and Paul Bohannan (p. v-xviii, 1-205)

Front Matter Margaret Gruter (p. i-ix)

Introduction Margaret Gruter and Paul Bohannan (p. xi-xviii)

The foundations in law and morality Margaret Gruter and Paul Bohannan (p. 1-2)

Biologically based behavior research and the facts of law Margaret Gruter (p. 2-15)

On the prospects of using sociobiology in shaping the law:a cautionary note Richard D. Schwartz (p. 15-27)

Anthropology, law and genetic inheritance E. Adamson Hoebel (p. 27-33)

Questions of the legal scholar concerning the so-called sense of justice Manfred Rehbinder (p. 34-45)

The search for the missing pieces:in biology Margaret Gruter and Paul Bohannan (p. 47-50)

Order without law Jane Goodall (p. 50-62)

Intraspecific killing among non-human primates Junichiro Itani (p. 62-74)

Atriangular brief on the evolution of brain and law Paul D. MacLean (p. 74-90)

Constraints on human behavior and the biological nature of man Hubert Markl (p. 90-100)

Biology and the Moral Paradoxes Richard D. Alexander (p. 101-111)

The neural and chemical basis of reward: new discoveries and theories in brain control of feeding, mating, aggression, self-stimulation and self-injection Bartley G. Hoebel (p. 111-128)

The search for the missing pieces: in social science Margaret Gruter and Paul Bohannan (p. 129-133)

The evolutionary development of morality as an effect of dominance behavior and conflict interference Christopher Boehm (p. 134-147)

Some bases of aggression and their relationship to the law Paul Bohannan (p. 147-158)

Legal and primary-group social controls Donald T. Campbell (p. 159-171)