Price loading...

Human Adaptation

Anthropology & Sociology

Price data last checked 107 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Product Description This book examines the concept of adaptation in four major fields in the human sciences. Genetic aspects are first considered through an examination of the human genes which have so far been identified as conferring survival value in particular environmental circumstances. The drift versus selection argument is also fully reviewed. The second contribution concerns the physiological changes which occur when individuals move from one environment to another. In the past, most attention has been given to the mechanisms of these changes, but here the focus is on the effects. The third contribution is directed at the analysis of behaviour - especially social behaviour. The application of kin selection and reciprocal attraction theories to humans is explored and the value of these approaches explained, whether the behaviour has a genetic basis or not. The final essay deals with the relevance of the adaptation concept to the social sciences and especially to social anthropology. It demonstrates that an ecological approach to understanding the nature and structure of human societies demands attention to adaptation.Reprinted in paperback for the first time and with a new foreword, this book, which serves as an excellent teaching text, clearly shows how attempts at integration in each of these various fields can benefit the study of human evolution, social structure and organization from all perspectives. About the Author G. A. Harrison University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College Howard Morphy Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research,Australian National University

Product Specifications

Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0367718391
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 March 2021
Listed Since: 06 February 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

Human Adaptation

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Rethinking Human Adaptation: Biological And Cultural Models

Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective (Evolutionary Foundations of Human Behavior Series)

Routledge Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution Book

Man in Adaptation: The Institutional Framework

Routledge Adaptive Origins: Evolution and Human Development

Environmental Adaptation and Eco-cultural Habitats: A coevolutionary approach to society and nature (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)

Routledge Human Adaptive Strategies - Anthropology Textbook

On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection (Studies in Comparative Social Science)

On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection (Studies in Comparative Social Science)

The Origins and Nature of Sociality

Human Evolution: An Introduction to Man's Adaptations

Human By Nature: Between Biology and the Social Sciences

Human Ecology: The Story of Our Place in Nature from Prehistory to the Present

Human Ethology

Human Evolution: Processes and Adaptations

EVOLUTIONARY BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Human Variation: From the Laboratory to the Field (Society for the Study of Human Biology)

Adaptation to Climate Change: From Resilience to Transformation

Routledge Human Ethology - Social and Developmental Psychology

Human Variation: From the Laboratory to the Field: 49 (Society for the Study of Human Biology)

Human Nature: Fact and Fiction - Literature, Science and Human Nature

Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind

Toward a Biosocial Science: Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life (Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences)

Human Biology: An introduction to human evolution, variation, growth, and adaptability (Oxford Science Publications)