Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior
Title | Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Alden Smith |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 574 |
Release | 2017-09-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351521314 |
""à required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies."" --American Journal of Human Biology ""This excellent book can serve both as a text¼book and as a scholarly reference."" --American Scientist
Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology
Title | Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology PDF eBook |
Author | David Westneat |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 661 |
Release | 2010-04 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195331931 |
Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology presents a comprehensive treatment of theevolutionary and ecological processes shaping behavior across a wide array of organisms and a diverse set of behaviors and is suitable as a graduate-level text and as a sourcebook for professional scientists.
Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior
Title | Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Alden Smith |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 470 |
Release | 2017-09-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351521322 |
""à required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies."" --American Journal of Human Biology ""This excellent book can serve both as a text¼book and as a scholarly reference."" --American Scientist
Evolution of Human Behavior
Title | Evolution of Human Behavior PDF eBook |
Author | Agustin Fuentes |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Behavior evolution |
ISBN | 9780195333596 |
"Author Agustin Fuentes incorporates recent innovations in evolutionary theory with emerging perspectives from genomic approaches, the current fossil record, and ethnographic studies. He examines basic assumptions about why humans behave as they do, the facts of human evolution, patterns of evolutionary change in a global environmental-temporal context, and the interconnected roles of cooperation and conflict in human history. The net result is a text that moves toward a more holistic understanding of the patterns of human evolution and a more integrated perspective on the evolution of human behavior."--BOOK JACKET.
Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture
Title | Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas J. Kennett |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 409 |
Release | 2006-01-02 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520932455 |
This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions in human history: the origins of agriculture. Carefully balancing theory and detailed empirical study, and drawing from a series of ethnographic and archaeological case studies from eleven locations—including North and South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, the Near East, Africa, and the Pacific—the contributors to this volume examine the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and herding using a broad set of analytical models and concepts. These include diet breadth, central place foraging, ideal free distribution, discounting, risk sensitivity, population ecology, and costly signaling. An introductory chapter both charts the basics of the theory and notes areas of rapid advance in our understanding of how human subsistence systems evolve. Two concluding chapters by senior archaeologists reflect on the potential for human behavioral ecology to explain domestication and the transition from foraging to farming.
Social Behaviour
Title | Social Behaviour PDF eBook |
Author | Tamás Székely |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 575 |
Release | 2010-11-18 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0521883172 |
A comprehensive analysis of the genetic, ecological and phylogenetic aspects of social behaviour, by experts in the field.
Sense and Nonsense
Title | Sense and Nonsense PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin N. Laland |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2011-04-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199586969 |
This book asks whether evolution can help us to understand human behaviour and explores diverse evolutionary methods and arguments. It provides a short, readable introduction to the science behind the works of Dawkins, Dennett, Wilson and Pinker. It is widely used in undergraduate courses around the world.