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Perspectives in Ethology - Evolution, Culture, and Behavior (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
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Perspectives in Ethology - Evolution, Culture, and Behavior (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
Series: Perspectives in Ethology, 13
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The relations between behavior, evolution, and culture have been a
subject of vigorous debate since the publication of Darwin's The
Descent of Man (1871). The latest volume of Perspectives in
Ethology brings anthropologists, ethologists, psychologists, and
evolutionary theorists together to reexamine this important
relation. With two exceptions (the essays by Brown and Eldredge),
all of the present essays were originally presented at the Fifth
Biannual Symposium on the Science of Behavior held in Guadalajara,
Mexico, in February 1998. The volume opens with the problem of the
origins of culture, tackled from two different viewpoints by
Richerson and Boyd, and Lancaster, Kaplan, Hill, and Hurtado,
respectively. Richerson and Boyd analyze the possible relations
between climatic change in the Pleistocene and the evo lution of
social learning, evaluating the boundary conditions under which
social learning could increase fitness and contribute to culture.
Lancaster, Kaplan, Hill, and Hurtado examine how a shift in the
diet of the genus Homo toward difficult-to-acquire food could have
determined (or coe volved with) unique features of the human life
cycle. These two essays illus trate how techniques that range from
computer modeling to comparative behavioral analysis, and that make
use of a wide range of data, can be used for drawing inferences
about past selection pressures. As culture evolves, it must somehow
find its place within (and also affect) a complex hierarchy of
behavioral and biological factors.
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