Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "evolution"

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    • The Evolution of Irrationality 
      Jones, Owen D. (Jurimetrics, 2001)
      The place of the rational actor model in the analysis of individual and social behavior relevant to law remains unresolved. In recent years, scholars have sought frameworks to explain: a) disjunctions between seemingly ...
    • Evolutionary Analysis in Law 
      Jones, Owen D. (North Carolina Law Review, 1997)
      For contemporary biologists, behavior - like physical form - evolves. Although evolutionary processes do not dictate behavior in any inflexible sense, they nonetheless contribute significantly to the prevalence of various ...
    • Intuitions of Punishment 
      Jones, Owen D.; Kurzban, Robert (University of Chicago Law Review, 2010)
      Recent work reveals, contrary to wide-spread assumptions, remarkably high levels of agreement about how to rank order, by blameworthiness, wrongs that involve physical harms, takings of property, or deception in exchanges. ...
    • Law, Evolution, and the Brain: Applications and Open Questions 
      Jones, Owen D. (2004)
      This essay discusses several issues at the intersection of law and brain science. If focuses principally on ways in which an improved understanding of how evolutionary processes affect brain function and human behavior may ...
    • On the Nature of Norms: Biology, Morality, and the Disruption of Order 
      Jones, Owen D. (Michigan Law Review, 2000)
      This essay discusses the legal implications of bio-behavioral underpinnings to norms, morality, and economic order. It first discusses the recent book "The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social ...
    • Proprioception, Non-Law, and Biolegal History 
      Jones, Owen D. (Florida Law Review, 2001)
      This Article explores several advantages of incorporating into law various insights from behavioral biology about how and why the brain works as it does. In particular, the Article explores the ways in which those insights ...
    • Realities of Rape: Of Science and Politics, Causes and Meanings 
      Jones, Owen D. (Cornell Law Review, 2001)
      This review essay discusses the book A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer (MIT Press, 2000). The essay builds on work previously appearing in Owen D. Jones, ...
    • Sex, Culture, and the Biology of Rape 
      Jones, Owen D. (California Law Review, 1999)
      For all that has been written about rape, its multiple causes remain insufficiently understood for law to deter it effectively. This follows, in part, from inadequately interdisciplinary study of rape causation. This Article ...