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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan CK Wells, Simon Strickland, Kevin Laland Klappentext With growing interest in investigating the contribution of social behavior to a range of biological outcomes! Social Information Transmission and Human Biology connects the work of evolutionary theorists and those dealing with practical issues in human health and demographics. Combining evolutionary models with biomedical research! authors from various disciplines look at how human behavior influences health! and how reproductive fitness sheds light on the processes that shaped the evolution of human behavior. Both academic and medical researchers will find much useful insight in this text. Zusammenfassung In response to a growing interest across disciplines for information regarding the contribution of social behavior to a range of biological outcomes, this book connects the work of evolutionary theorists and those dealing with practical issues in human health and demographics. It is suitable for academic and medical researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Jonathan Wells! Simon Strickland! Kevin Laland An Introduction to Evolutionary Models of Human Social Behavior; Kevin Laland and Gillian Brown How Niche Construction Contributes to Human Gene-Culture Coevolution; John Odling-Smee State and Value: A Perspective from Behavioral Ecology; John McNamara and Alasdair Houston An Agnostic View of Memes; Robert Aunger Biological Ends and Human Social Information Transmission; Jonathan Wells and Simon Strickland The Significance of Socially Transmitted Information for Nutrition and Health in the Great Ape Clade; Andrew Whiten Language: Costs and Benefits of a Specialized System for Social Information Transmission; Daniel Nettle The Evolution of Social Information Transmission in Homo; Steven Mithen From Cultural History to Cultural Evolution: An Archaeological Perspective on Social Information Transmission; Stephen Shennan The Uptake of Modern Contraception in a Gambian Community: The Diffusion of an Innovation over 25 Years; Ruth Mace! Nadine Allal! Rebecca Sear! and Andrew Prentice Sex without Birth or Death: A Comparison of Two International Humanitarian Movements; John Cleland and Susan Watkins Smoking and the New Health Education in Britain! 1950s-1970s; Virginia Berridge and Kelly Loughlin The Demographic and Health Impact of the One Child Family Policy; Therese Hesketh Social Trends and Psychopathology; Roland Littlewood Epilogue: Memory! Tradition! and Teleology; Simon Strickland ...
