Perspectives in Ethology - Evolution, Culture, and Behavior (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Perspectives in Ethology, 13
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	2000
Editors:	Nicholas S. Thompson • Francois Tonneau
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	318
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-5447-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
LSN:	1-4613-5447-1
Barcode:	9781461354475

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