Feelings as agents of selection: putting Charles Darwin back into (extended neo‐) Darwinism

Volume: 112, Issue: 2, Pages: 332 - 353
Published: Jun 1, 2014
Abstract
This cross-disciplinary essay employs some illustrations ('vignettes') of behavioural interactions examined by the authors (man, mammals, fish, octopus) to show feelings and emotions (affects) acting as essential regulators of the process of living. The notion of the primacy of feelings as both necessary feed-backs operating in self-preservation and growth, and as agents of selection during inter-subjective and predator-prey exchanges, is...
Paper Details
Title
Feelings as agents of selection: putting Charles Darwin back into (extended neo‐) Darwinism
Published Date
Jun 1, 2014
Volume
112
Issue
2
Pages
332 - 353
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