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List of Contents:

Wulf Schiefenhövel: Foreword for the English Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements

PART I: Contributions to the epistemology of interdisciplinarity in the human sciences

1. Interdisciplinary theoretical foundation of the natural sciences
1.1 The central questions
1.1.1 The question of causation
1.1.2 The question of ontogeny
1.1.3 The question of adaptive value
1.1.4 The question of phylogeny
1.2 The reference levels
1.3 Chapter appendix: evolutionary psychology, evolutionary medicine
2. Contributions of the humanities to the interdisciplinary dialogue in human sciences
2.1 The body-mind problem: how it came to the separation of academic faculties
2.2 Approaches bridging the division between the humanities and the natural sciences
2.2.1 Popper's postulate of falsifiability
2.2.2 The structure of the real world according to Nicolai Hartmann
2.2.3 Levels of evidence and demands for certainty
2.2.4 David Hume and Norbert Bischof
2.3 A plea in favour of orientational knowledge
2.4 Chapter appendix: forms of knowledge, Semmelweis Effect

PART II: Behavioural phylogeny in relation to the higher-level systematics of vertebrates
3. On the phylogeny of human cognition
3.1 Evolutionary stages of human cognition
3.1.1 Phylogenetic and ontogenetic knowledge gain
3.1.2 The evolution of cognitive capacities
3.1.3 Communal coexistence and culture; cultural-theoretical considerations
3.1.4 Overlaps between concepts of psychotherapy and ethology
3.2 Chapter appendix: further aspects of hominisation
4. From animal brood care to human social behaviour
4.1 From brood care to cooperativeness and its limits
4.2 Grieving, greeting and leave-taking
4.3 From brood care to sexual behaviour
4.3.1 Incest avoidance mechanisms
4.3.2 Gender differences
5. The apple from the tree of knowledge and the expulsion from paradise: on the evolution of morality
5.1 Questions about human nature
5.2 Evolutionary origins of humanity
5.2.1 Social