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Author Chagnon, Napoleon

Title Adaptation and Human Behavior : an Anthropological Perspective
Published Berlin : Taylor and Francis, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (529 pages)
Series Evolutionary Foundations of Human Behavior
Evolutionary foundations of human behavior.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgment; Contributors; Part I Some Statements of Theory; 1. Two Decades of a New Paradigm; 2. Three Styles in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behavior; Part II Mating; 3. Polygyny, Family Structure, and Child Mortality: A Prospective Study among the Dogon of Mali; 4. Paternal Investment and Hunter-Gatherer Divorce Rates; 5. Fertility, Offspring Quality, and Wealth in Datoga Pastoralists: Testing Evolutionary Models of Intersexual Selection
6. Manipulating Kinship Rules: A Form of Male Yanomamö Reproductive Competition7. Physical Attractiveness, Race, and Somatic Prejudice in Bahia, Brazil; Part III Parenting; 8. Parental Investment Strategies among Aka Foragers, Ngandu Farmers, and Euro-American Urban-Industrialists; 9. Parenting Other Men's Children: Costs, Benefits, and Consequences; 10. Female-Biased Parental Investment and Growth Performance among the Mukogodo; 11. Why Do the Yomut Raise More Sons than Daughters?; 12. The Grandmother Hypothesis and Human Evolution; Part IV The Demographic Transition
13. An Adaptive Model of Human Reproductive Rate Where Wealth Is Inherited: Why People Have Small Families14. The Evolutionary Economics and Psychology of the Demographic Transition to Low Fertility; 15. Sex, Wealth, and Fertility: Old Rules, New Environments; 16. To Marry Again or Not: A Dynamic Model for Demographic Transition; Part V Sociality; 17. Effects of Illness and Injury on Foraging among the Yora and Shiwiar: Pathology Risk as Adaptive Problem; 18. Reciprocal Altruism in Yamomamö Food Exchange; 19. Reciprocal Altruism and Warfare: A Case from the Ecuadorian Amazon
20. The Emergence and Stability of Cooperative Fishing on Ifaluk AtollPart VI Conclusion; 21. Twenty Years of Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: Where Are We Now?; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sociobiology.
Human behavior.
Social evolution.
Human evolution.
Human ecology.
Behavior
Cultural Evolution
human behavior.
human ecology.
Human behavior
Human ecology
Human evolution
Social evolution
Sociobiology
Form Electronic book
Author Cronk, Lee
Chagnon, Napoleon A
Irons, Willliam
ISBN 9781351329194
1351329197