Applied Evolutionary Anthropology

Author : Mhairi A. Gibson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1493902806
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applied Evolutionary Anthropology written by Mhairi A. Gibson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 diversity. This book is the first major review of the emerging field of Applied Evolutionary Anthropology bringing together the work of an international group of evolutionary scientists, addressing many of the major public health and social issues of this century. Through a series of case studies that span both rural and urban situations in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, each chapter addresses topics such as natural resource management, health service delivery, population growth and the emergence of new family structures, dietary, and co-operative behaviours. The research presented identifies the great, largely untapped, potential that Applied Evolutionary Anthropology holds to guide the design, implementation and evaluation of effective social and public health policy. This book will be of interest to policy-makers and applied researchers, along with academics and students across the biological and social sciences.

Author : Mhairi A. Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781493902811
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applied Evolutionary Anthropology written by Mhairi A. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. Craig Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199586071
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applied Evolutionary Psychology written by S. Craig Roberts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to overtly consider how basic evolutionary thinking is being applied to a wide range of special social, economic, and technical problems. It draws together a collection of renowned academics from a very disparate set of fields, whose common interest lies in using evolutionary thinking to inform their research.

Author : Michael J. O'Brien
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306474689
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applying Evolutionary Archaeology written by Michael J. O'Brien and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the chances are good that the word evolution will appear somewhere in the text. If for some reason the word itself is absent, the odds are excellent that at least the concept of change over time will have a central role in the discussion. After one of the preeminent (and often vilified) social scientists of the nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer, popularized the term in the 1850s, evolution became more or less a household word, usually being used synonymously with change, albeit change over extended periods of time. Later, through the writings of Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, and others, the notion of evolution as it applies to stages of social and political development assumed a prominent position in anthropological disc- sions. To those with only a passing knowledge of American anthropology, it often appears that evolutionism in the early twentieth century went into a decline at the hands of Franz Boas and those of similar outlook, often termed particularists. However, it was not evolutionism that was under attack but rather comparativism— an approach that used the ethnographic present as a key to understanding how and why past peoples lived the way they did (Boas 1896).

Author : Michael John O'Brien
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262013339
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation in Cultural Systems written by Michael John O'Brien and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthropologists reconsidered the role of innovation in particular, and have moved toward characterizing innovation in cultural systems not only as a product but also as an evolutionary process. This distinction was familiar to biology but new to the social sciences; cultural evolutionists from the nineteenth to the twentieth century had tended to see innovation as a preprogrammed change that occurred when a cultural group "needed" to overcome environmental problems. In this volume, leading researchers from a variety of disciplines--including anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, philosophy, and psychology--offer their perspectives on cultural innovation. The book provides not only a range of views but also an integrated account, with the chapters offering an orderly progression of thought. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms, discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and evo-devo; they discuss modern insights into innovation, including simulation, the random-copying model, diffusion, and demographic analysis; and they offer case studies of innovation from archaeological and ethnographic records, examining developmental, behavioral, and social patterns. Contributors André Ariew, R. Alexander Bentley, Werner Callebaut, Joseph Henrich, Anne Kandler, Kevin N. Laland, Daniel O. Larson, Alex Mesoudi, Michael J. O'Brien, Craig T. Palmer, Adam Powell, Simon M. Reader, Valentine Roux, Chet Savage, Michael Brian Schiffer, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Stephen J. Shennan, James Steele, Mark G. Thomas, Todd L. VanPool

Author : Charles L. Nunn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226608980
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology written by Charles L. Nunn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And when new fossils are found, such as those of the tiny humans of Flores, scientists compare these remains to other fossils and contemporary humans.

Author : S. Craig Roberts
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191625701
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applied Evolutionary Psychology written by S. Craig Roberts and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human behaviour is marvellous in its complexity, variability and unpredictability. Understanding it, however, is not solely the role of psychologists: everyone has a vested interest in it, from individuals to organisations and industry. Recently, biologists and psychologists have had considerable success incorporating insights from evolutionary theory to help them understand some fundamental psychological issues, in a discipline now known as evolutionary psychology. However, to date, these useful insights have not been widely applied to tackle specific practical problems or issues in society. This innovative new book kick-starts this process. It provides a foundation for an incipient focus on applications of evolutionary research. It draws together a collection of renowned academics from a disparate set of fields, whose common interest lies in using evolutionary thinking to inform their research. Topics range from reviews of evolutionary perspectives on adult and family relationships, insights into business, economics and marketing, health and interactions with technology and the media, through to major global and societal issues such as promoting green behaviour, cooperation, and public health, and tackling crime, terrorism, and prejudice. No other book has focused as specifically and with such broad scope on the applications of modern evolutionary psychology. While the rapidly growing number of books on evolutionary psychology succeed in describing current theoretical thinking, illustrated and supported by empirical studies, this book uses this established basis as a backdrop and starting point for a more focused exploration of practical application. This groundbreaking book will be valuable for students and researchers in evolutionary and applied psychology, as well as biology and anthropology.

Author : Patrick McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521894972
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Sleep written by Patrick McNamara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and biological anthropology and to biomedical researchers studying sleep medicine.

Author : Beth Alison Schultz Shook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931303811
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Explorations written by Beth Alison Schultz Shook and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Stoneking
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118061624
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology written by Mark Stoneking and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molecular anthropology uses molecular genetic methods to address questions and issues of anthropological interest. More specifically, molecular anthropology is concerned with genetic evidence concerning human origins, migrations, and population relationships, including related topics such as the role of recent natural selection in human population differentiation, or the impact of particular social systems on patterns of human genetic variation. Organized into three major sections, An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology first covers the basics of genetics – what genes are, what they do, and how they do it – as well as how genes behave in populations and how evolution influences them. The following section provides an overview of the different kinds of genetic variation in humans, and how this variation is analyzed and used to make evolutionary inferences. The third section concludes with a presentation of the current state of genetic evidence for human origins, the spread of humans around the world, the role of selection and adaptation in human evolution, and the impact of culture on human genetic variation. A final, concluding chapter discusses various aspects of molecular anthropology in the genomics era, including personal ancestry testing and personal genomics. An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology is an invaluable resource for students studying human evolution, biological anthropology, or molecular anthropology, as well as a reference for anthropologists and anyone else interested in the genetic history of humans.