Introduction to Human Evolution: A Bio-Cultural Approach, Gillian Crane-Kramer, Roman Gastrell Harrison

Автор: Wood Bernard
Название: Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0198831749 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198831747
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. New fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past; the new science of ancient DNA is completely reshaping theories of early human populations and migrations. Bernard Wood traces the field of palaeoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present.

Автор: Heyes Cecilia
Название: Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
ISBN: 0674980158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674980150
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Adult humans have impressive pieces of cognitive equipment, but in Cecilia Heyes`s view these cognitive gadgets are not programmed in the genes. They are constructed over the course of childhood through social interaction. From birth, our malleable minds learn from our culture-soaked human environment not only what to think but how to think it.

Автор: Wells
Название: The Metabolic Ghetto
ISBN: 1107009472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107009479
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Chronic diseases have rapidly become the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality, yet there is poor understanding of this transition, or why particular social and ethnic groups are especially susceptible. In this book, Wells adopts a multidisciplinary approach to human nutrition, emphasising how power relations shape the physiological pathways to obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Part I reviews the physiological basis of chronic diseases, presenting a 'capacity-load' model that integrates the nutritional contributions of developmental experience and adult lifestyle. Part II presents an evolutionary perspective on the sensitivity of human metabolism to ecological stresses, highlighting how social hierarchy impacts metabolism on an intergenerational timescale. Part III reviews how nutrition has changed over time, as societies evolved and coalesced towards a single global economic system. Part IV integrates these physiological, evolutionary and politico-economic perspectives in a unifying framework, to deepen our understanding of the societal basis of metabolic ill-health.

Автор: Edited By Colin Renf
Название: Ritual, play, and belief in evolution and early human societies
ISBN: 110714356X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107143562
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The origins of religion and ritual in humans hold a longstanding fascination, and have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Here ritual and the development of human societies are related to the critical human and animal legacy of play and performance.

Автор: Gaulin Steven J. C.
Название: Human Evolution: Processes and Adaptations
ISBN: 1516512219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516512218
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Human Evolution: Processes and Adaptations is designed for introductory courses in biological anthropology. The book develops the theory and methods of the modern evolutionist and, with many clear examples, shows how to apply them to make sense of the biological traits that define our species. Featuring a scientific, issue-oriented perspective on human evolution – how it works, what it can and cannot do, and what it reveals about human nature – this textbook uses engaging analogies to make current research accessible to beginning students. This fourth edition includes new or expanded chapters on fossils and on genetics.More than a mere survey of the requisite topics, this book weaves the threads of natural selection, genetics, adaptation, speciation, classification, fossils, and human behavior into a coherent picture where each element usefully illuminates the others. In an approachable 250 pages, students learn not just the subject matter of biological anthropology, but acquire an evolutionary tool kit they can use to explore any biological question. Use of this tool kit is modeled through analyses that are of topical interest to the students, such as sex and sexuality. Human Evolution is a fresh, stand-alone text with key concepts depicted in more than 90 illustrations, and is designed to stimulate instructors and students alike.

Автор: Stanish
Название: The Evolution of Human Co-operation
ISBN: 1107180554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107180550
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology, Stanish investigates how people living in small groups without money, markets or police develop sustainable norms of economic and social cooperation. He provides the theoretical framework and goes on to highlight the evolution of cooperation with ethnographic and archaeological data.

Автор: Van Den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. (universitat Aut-noma De Barcelona)
Название: Human evolution beyond biology and culture
ISBN: 110845688X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108456883
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Offers a close to complete view on topics that have been addressed from an evolutionary angle, with a focus on social science. A broad readership, including academics from natural to social sciences, and a general audience, are guaranteed to find a lot to their taste in the book.

Автор: Lesnik, Julie J.
Название: Edible insects and human evolution
ISBN: 0813064317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813064314
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Researchers who study ancient human diets tend to focus on meat eating because the practice of butchery is very apparent in the archaeological record. In this volume, Julie Lesnik highlights a different food source, tracing evidence that humans and their hominin ancestors also consumed insects throughout the entire course of human evolution.Lesnik combines primatology, sociocultural anthropology, reproductive physiology, and paleoanthropology to examine the role of insects in the diets of hunter-gatherers and our nonhuman primate cousins. She posits that women would likely spend more time foraging for and eating insects than men, arguing that this pattern is important to note because women are too often ignored in reconstructions of ancient human behavior. Because of the abundance of insects and the low risk of acquiring them, insects were a reliable food source that mothers used to feed their families over the past five million years. Although they are consumed worldwide to this day, insects are not usually considered food in Western societies. Tying together ancient history with our modern lives, Lesnik points out that insects are highly nutritious and a very sustainable protein alternative. She believes that if we accept that edible insects are a part of the human legacy, we may have new conversations about what is good to eat—both in past diets and for the future of food.

Автор: Wells Jonathan C K
Название: Metabolic Ghetto
ISBN: 1108737579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108737579
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A broad, multidisciplinary account of how human societies have evolved power relations that shape the fundamental relationship between nutrition and health. Appealing to academics in a variety of disciplines, in addition to graduates and policy makers, this book will address nutritional transitions over time and the epidemic of chronic disease.

Автор: Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Название: Human Evolution beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences
ISBN: 1108470971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108470971
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Offers a close to complete view on topics that have been addressed from an evolutionary angle, with a focus on social science. A broad readership, including academics from natural to social sciences, and a general audience, are guaranteed to find a lot to their taste in the book.

Автор: Ellis E. McDowell-Loudan
Название: Human Evolution and Survival: Candid Conversations on the Human Story
ISBN: 160927430X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609274306
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: What does it mean to be human? What is evolution? How should we define ""survival""? These questions are at the heart of this anthology, which introduces students to important concepts in anthropology. Human Evolution and Survival teaches students to question, think critically, and debate who we are, how we got that way, and how we will survive into the future.

Автор: Wink Michael
Название: Introduction to Molecular Biotechnology
ISBN: 3527326375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783527326372
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: - revised full-color edition with new chapters on current topics - introductory chapters provide the fundamentals of cell and molecular biology - section dedicated to economic aspects: drug approval, patent issues, how to start up a company - Written by a selection of top experts from academia and biotech industry.