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almahu_9949792866602882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 768 pages) :
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49 illustrations.
ISBN:
9781800641723
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9781800641730
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9781800646827
Inhalt:
"Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights cutting-edge research for interested readers and researchers in demography, the evolutionary behavioural sciences, biology, and related disciplines. By bridging the boundaries between social and biological sciences, the volume stresses the importance of a unified understanding of both in order to grasp past and current demographic patterns. Demographic traits, and traits related to demographic outcomes, including fertility and mortality rates, marriage, parental care, menopause, and cooperative behavior are subject to evolutionary processes. Bringing an understanding of evolution into demography therefore incorporates valuable insights into this field; just as knowledge of demography is key to understanding evolutionary processes. By asking questions about old patterns from a new perspective, the volume-composed of contributions from established and early-career academics-demonstrates that a combination of social science research and evolutionary theory offers holistic understandings and approaches that benefit both fields. Human Evolutionary Demography introduces an emerging field in an accessible style. It is suitable for graduate courses in demography, as well as upper-level undergraduates. Its range of research is sure to be of interest to academics working on demographic topics (anthropologists, sociologists, demographers), natural scientists working on evolutionary processes, and disciplines which cross-cut natural and social science, such as evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, cultural evolution, and evolutionary medicine. As an accessible introduction, it should interest readers whether or not they are currently familiar with human evolutionary demography."--Publisher's website.
Anmerkung:
Available through Open Book Publishers.
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1. Human Evolutionary Demography: Introduction and Rationale / Rebecca Sear, Oskar Burger, Ronald Lee -- 2. Evolution in the History of Population Thought / Philip Kreager -- 3. A Biologist's Perspective on Human Evolutionary Demography / Bobbi S. Low -- 4. Anthropological and Evolutionary Demography / Kim Hill -- 5. Controversies and Unfinished Business in Hadza Demography and Evolutionary Ecology / Nicholas Blurton Jones -- 6. Ecological Evolutionary Demography: Understanding Variation in Demographic Behaviour / Mary K. Shenk, Siobhán M. Mattison -- 7. Contextual Effects on Fertility and Mortality: Complementary Contributions from Demography and Evolutionary Life History Theory / Caroline Uggla -- 8. Why Do We Do What We Do? Analysing the Evolutionary Function of Reproductive Behaviour / Ruth Mace -- 9. My Family and Other Animals : Human Demography Under a Comparative Cross-Species Lens / Thomas H G Ezard, Kevin Healy, Markus Mueller, Owen R Jones, Claire Dooley, Dave J Hodgson, Stuart Townley, Roberto Salguero-Gomez -- 10. The Role of Ontogeny in Understanding Human Demographic Behaviour / Paula Sheppard, David A. Coall -- 11. How It Works: The Biological Mechanisms that Generate Demographic Diversity / Virginia J. Vitzthum -- 12. Genetic Evolutionary Demography / Kenneth W. Wachter -- 13. Genetics and Reproductive Behaviour: A Review / Melinda C. Mills, Felix C. Tropf -- 14. Measuring Selection for Quantitative Traits in Human Populations / Jacob A Moorad -- 15. Demographic Sources of Variation in Fitness / Hal Caswell, Silke van Daalen -- 16. Ageing in the Wild, Residual Demography and Discovery of a Stationary Population Equality / James R. Carey -- 17. Human Mortality from Beginning to End: What Does Natural Selection Have to Do with It? / Steven Hecht Orzack, Daniel Levitis -- 18. Sociality, Food Sharing, and the Evolution of Life Histories / Ronald Lee, Carl Boe -- 19. Evolutionary Demography of the Great Apes / Melissa Emery Thompson, Kristin Sabbi -- 20. Did Grandmothers Enhance Reproductive Success in Historic Populations? Testing Evolutionary Theories on Historical Demographic Data in Scandinavia and North America / Alla Chernenko, Alain Gagnon, Lisa Dillon, Martin Dribe, Sacha Engelhardt, Hélène Vézina, Heidi A. Hanson, Huong Meeks, Luciana Quaranta, Ken R. Smith -- 21. The Challenges of Evolutionary Biodemography and the Example of Menopause / Shripad Tuljapurkar -- 22. A Theory of Culture for Evolutionary Demography / Heidi Colleran -- 23. Bateman's Principles and the Study of Evolutionary Demography / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder -- 24. What Are Couples Made of? Union Formation in High-income Societies / Anna Rotkirch -- 25. Cooperation and Competition Begin at Home: Bridging Household Ecology and Human Evolutionary Demography / Julia A. Jennings -- 26. Historical Family Reconstitution Databases in the Study of Kinship Influences on Demographic Outcomes / Kai P. Willführ, Eckart Voland, Jonathan F. Fox -- 27. The Impact of Social Dynamics on Life History Trajectory and Demographic Traits: Insights from the "Producer Scrounger" Game / Jonathan Wells -- 28. Pathways of Density Dependence and Natural Selection in Modern Humans / John P. DeLong -- 29. Evolutionary Approaches to Population Health: Insights on Polygynous Marriage, "Child Marriage" and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting / Mhairi A. Gibson, David W. Lawson -- 30. The Biodemography of Human Health in Contemporary Non-industrial Populations: Insights from the Tsimane Health and Life History Project / Benjamin Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan -- 31. Trade-Offs between Mortality Components in Life History Evolution: The Case of Cancers / Samuel Pavard, C. Jessica E. Metcalf -- 32. Human Evolutionary Demography: Closing Thoughts / Oskar Burger, Ronald Lee, Rebecca Sear.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Sprache:
Englisch
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