Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture - Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences

A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

List of contents

Part I. Prevue: 1. Making the improbable probable; 2. The world according to evolution; Part II. Evolutionary Biology: 3. Pre-Darwinism, Darwinism and neo-Darwinism; 4. Advanced ideas in evolutionary biology and genetics; Part III. Bridging Natural and Social Sciences: 5. Evolution of social behaviour in animals and humans; 6. Group selection in biology and the social sciences; Part IV. Evolutionary Social Sciences: 7. Evolutionary theories of human culture; 8. Evolutionary economics; 9. Evolution of organisations and institutions; 10. Technological evolution; Part V. Evolutionary Cultural History: 11. Pre-history until the rise of agriculture; 12. Industrialisation and technological history; Part VI. Evolutionary Environmental and Policy Sciences: 13. Survival of the greenest; 14. Evolving solutions for climate change; 15. Evolutionary policy and politics; 16. Evolutionary futures.

About the author

Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh is ICREA Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2007-present), and full Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1997-present). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions and served on the Netherlands' Energy Council. He is cited more than 17,000 times in Google Scholar, and received the Royal/Shell Prize 2002, IEC's Sant Jordi Environmental Prize 2011 and an ERC Advanced Grant.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeroen C. J. M. (Universitat Aut-noma de Barcelona) van den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. (Universitat Aut-No Van Den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. (Universitat Aut-noma de Barcelona) van den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. (Universitat Autono Van Den Bergh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781108456883
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45688-3
• No. of pages: 564
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Anthropologie, Humanbiologie, Entwicklungsgeschichte, Abstammung, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Anthropology, Human biology, Physical anthropology