Life History Evolution A Biological Meta-Theory for the Social Sciences /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Hertler, Steven C. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Figueredo, Aurelio José (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Mateo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Fernandes, Heitor B. F. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Woodley of Menie, Michael A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Biological psychology.; Evolutionary biology.; Demography.; Physical anthropology.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Biological Psychology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Biological and Physical Anthropology.; Community & Population Ecology.

The social sciences share a mission to shed light on human nature and society. However, there is no widely accepted meta-theory; no foundation from which variables can be linked, causally sequenced, or ultimately explained. This book advances "life history evolution" as the missing meta-th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Life History Theory: An Overview in the Abstract
• 2. Ellsworth Huntington's Victorian Climatic Writings
• 3. Adapting within a Matrix of Flora and Fauna
• 4. Scratching Out a Living after the Neolithic Revolution
• 5. The Schedules of Mortality
• 6. Closing the Commons and Opening the Factory
• 7. John Maxwell Landers' Four Horseman Spurring Humans Faster Along the Life History Continuum
• 8. The Role of Life History in Civilization Cycling
• 9. Epidemiological and Biogeographical Perspectives on Civilization
• 10. Extrapolating from Early Modern Iberia
• 11. Stemming the Tide of Sterility with an Atlas of World Cultures
• 12. Pre-State Societies in the Hobbesian Trap
• 13. Ecological Anthropology and Cultural Materialism
• 14. Towards a Geography of Political Culture
• 15. From Tribe, to Fief, to City-State, to Nation, to Empire
• 16. Weighing the Biological Ballast Informing Class Structure and Class Mobility
• 17. Bequeathing a Dual Inheritance to Life History Theory
• 18. Reframing Parental Investment and Offspring Attachment
• 19. Towards an Evolutionary Ecological Systems Theory.