By Donald G. Dutton
This influential ebook offers an cutting edge framework for realizing and treating intimate associate violence. Integrating quite a few theoretical and empirical views, Donald G. Dutton demonstrates that male abusiveness is greater than only a realized development of behavior--it is the outgrowth of a selected character configuration. He illuminates the improvement of the abusive character from early early life to maturity and provides an evidence-based therapy technique designed to satisfy this population's targeted wishes. the second one variation good points new chapters at the neurobiological roots of abusive habit and the improvement of abusiveness in females.
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Natural selection is that process by which physical characteristics or behaviors that have survival value are passed on to offspring. Those members of a species who do not exhibit the behaviors will die off; having failed to make their genetic contribution, they will diminish in number and eventually be “selected out” of a species. 25 This outcome— the transmittal of genes—is referred to as the behaviors’ evolutionary function, and the process is referred to as natural selection (also called “fitness” by sociobiologists, short for “genetic fitness”).
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