Adaptation and Human Behavior

Name: Adaptation and Human Behavior
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Adaptation and Human BehaviorAn Anthropological Perspective\nAuthor(s): Napoleon Chagnon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: AldineTransaction\nISBN-13: 9780202020433, 978-0202020433\nSynopsis\nThis volume presents state-of-the-art empirical studies working in a paradigm that has become known as human behavioral ecology. The emergence of this approach in anthropology was marked by publication by Aldine in 1979 of an earlier collection of studies edited by Chagnon and Irons entitled Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective. During the two decades that have passed since then, this innovative approach has matured and expanded into new areas that are explored here.\n\nThe book opens with an introductory chapter by Chagnon and Irons tracing the origins of human behavioral ecology and its subsequent development. Subsequent chapters, written by both younger scholars and established researchers, cover a wide ra.