Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gibson, Mhairi A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Lawson, David W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Advances in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behaviour ; 1
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Anthropology.; Social Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

As a species, we are currently experiencing dramatic shifts in our lifestyle, family structure, health, and global contact. Evolutionary Anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework to study such changes, revealing how current environments and legacies of past selection shape human diversi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1- Introduction: Applying Evolutionary Anthropology to a Changing World
• Chapter 2- Rationality and the Green Revolution
• Chapter 3- A comparison of the economic literature on microfinance and the evolutionary literature on cooperation
• Chapter 4- How development intervention drives population change in rural Africa: A case study of applied evolutionary anthropology
• Chapter 5- Family structure and health in the developing world: What can evolutionary anthropology contribute to population health science?
• Chapter 6- Declining breastfeeding rates among immigrant populations: A look through an evolutionary lens
• Chapter 7- The evolutionary demography of sex ratios in rural Bangladesh
• Chapter 8- Evolutionary anthropology, co-operation and warfare
• Chapter 9- Understanding and addressing cultural variation in costly antisocial punishment
• Chapter 10-Socioeconomic disparities in health behaviour: An evolutionary perspective
• Chapter 11- Nutrition in a changing world: How economic growth drives chronic diseases
• Chapter 12- The Evo-Eco approach to behaviour change.