Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Series: | Advances in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behaviour,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0280-4 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.