Life History Evolution A Biological Meta-Theory for the Social Sciences /

The social sciences share a mission to shed light on human nature and society. However, there is no widely accepted meta-theory; no foundation from which variables can be linked, causally sequenced, or ultimately explained. This book advances "life history evolution" as the missing meta-th...

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Hlavní autor: Hertler, Steven C. (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Témata:
Biological psychology.
Evolutionary biology.
Demography.
Physical anthropology.
Community ecology, Biotic.
ISBN:9783319901251
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Obsah:
  • 1. Life History Theory: An Overview in the Abstract
  • 2. Ellsworth Huntington's Victorian Climatic Writings
  • 3. Adapting within a Matrix of Flora and Fauna
  • 4. Scratching Out a Living after the Neolithic Revolution
  • 5. The Schedules of Mortality
  • 6. Closing the Commons and Opening the Factory
  • 7. John Maxwell Landers' Four Horseman Spurring Humans Faster Along the Life History Continuum
  • 8. The Role of Life History in Civilization Cycling
  • 9. Epidemiological and Biogeographical Perspectives on Civilization
  • 10. Extrapolating from Early Modern Iberia
  • 11. Stemming the Tide of Sterility with an Atlas of World Cultures
  • 12. Pre-State Societies in the Hobbesian Trap
  • 13. Ecological Anthropology and Cultural Materialism
  • 14. Towards a Geography of Political Culture
  • 15. From Tribe, to Fief, to City-State, to Nation, to Empire
  • 16. Weighing the Biological Ballast Informing Class Structure and Class Mobility
  • 17. Bequeathing a Dual Inheritance to Life History Theory
  • 18. Reframing Parental Investment and Offspring Attachment
  • 19. Towards an Evolutionary Ecological Systems Theory.

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