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""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

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Author:   Eric Alden Smith ,  Bruce Winterhalder
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   AldineTransaction
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.839kg
ISBN:  

9780202011837

ISBN 10:   0202011836
Pages:   486
Publication Date:   31 December 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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<p> 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. <p> --Henry Harpending, Science <p> 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. <p> --Carel P. van Schaik, American Scientist

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