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
Eric Alden Smith
-The editors set about to create a high-level summary of the field
by recruiting authors to prepare critical reviews to a common
standard. They did it right--the volume is balanced and strong....
The book is full of new perspectives and refreshing insights.... It
ought to become a central source for anthropologists who want to
bring modern science to their field.- --Henry Harpending, Science
-This excellent book can serve both as a textbook and a scholarly
reference. It provides the best synthesis to date of an endeavor
that promises to clarify the interactions between individuals,
society and population in human beings. Evolutionary Ecology and
Human Behavior deserves to be read by anthropologists who are not
intimidated by biology or numbers, as well as by zoologists and
primatologists, who would benefit from seeing familiar and
not-so-familiar models applied to different phenomena.- --Carel P.
van Schaik, American Scientist
"The editors set about to create a high-level summary of the field
by recruiting authors to prepare critical reviews to a common
standard. They did it right--the volume is balanced and strong....
The book is full of new perspectives and refreshing insights.... It
ought to become a central source for anthropologists who want to
bring modern science to their field." --Henry Harpending, Science
"This excellent book can serve both as a textbook and a scholarly
reference. It provides the best synthesis to date of an endeavor
that promises to clarify the interactions between individuals,
society and population in human beings. Evolutionary Ecology and
Human Behavior deserves to be read by anthropologists who are not
intimidated by biology or numbers, as well as by zoologists and
primatologists, who would benefit from seeing familiar and
not-so-familiar models applied to different phenomena." --Carel P.
van Schaik, American Scientist
"The editors set about to create a high-level summary of the field
by recruiting authors to prepare critical reviews to a common
standard. They did it right--the volume is balanced and strong....
The book is full of new perspectives and refreshing insights.... It
ought to become a central source for anthropologists who want to
bring modern science to their field." --Henry Harpending, Science
"This excellent book can serve both as a textbook and a scholarly
reference. It provides the best synthesis to date of an endeavor
that promises to clarify the interactions between individuals,
society and population in human beings. Evolutionary Ecology and
Human Behavior deserves to be read by anthropologists who are not
intimidated by biology or numbers, as well as by zoologists and
primatologists, who would benefit from seeing familiar and
not-so-familiar models applied to different phenomena." --Carel P.
van Schaik, American Scientist
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