1st Edition
Social Information Transmission and Human Biology
306 Pages
41 B/W Illustrations
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CRC Press
289 Pages
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CRC Press
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Recent research has emphasized that socially transmitted information may affect both the gene pool and the phenotypes of individuals and populations, and that an improved understanding of evolutionary issues is beneficial to those working towards the improvement of human health. Equally, an improved awareness of how human behavior influences health and reproductive fitness is starting to shed new... Read more
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
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
Biography
Jonathan CK Wells, Simon Strickland, Kevin Laland
