Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior

ISBN-13: 9780202011844 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 486 str.

Bruce Winterhalder; Eric Smith; Eric Alden Smith

Opis

Evolutionary ecology has grown into an exciting and dynamic area of research in the biological sciences. Only recently, however, has there been noteworthy progress in adapting theory, concepts, and models from this fi eld for analysis of human behavior and evolution.

Spis treści

1: Theoretical Foundations; 1: Evolutionary Ecology and the Social Sciences; 2: Natural Selection and Decision-Making: Some Fundamental Principles; 3: Cultural Inheritance and Evolutionary Ecology; 2: Closest Kin; 4: Evolutionary Ecology of Primate Social Structure; 5: Evolutionary Ecology of Fossil Hominids; 3: Resources, Work, and Space; 6: The Evolutionary Ecology of Food Acquisition; 7: Time Allocation; 8: Spatial Organization and Habitat Use; 4: Reproduction and Social Relations; 9: Sharing and Collective Action; 10: Competition, Conflict, and The Development of Social Hierarchies; 11: Reproductive Decisions; 12: Resources and Population Dynamics

O autorze

Eric Alden Smith