Preface |
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Series Editors' Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Section I Evolution, Behavior And Culture |
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1 Elements of Evolutionary Biology |
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1.2 Natural Selection and Fitness |
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1.5 Phylogeny and Character Reconstruction |
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1.6 Evolution as a Historical Science |
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2 Basics of Behavioral Biology |
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2.2 Proximate and Ultimate Aspects of Behavior |
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2.3 Proximate Control of Behavior |
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2.4 Development of Behavior |
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2.5 Adaptive Function: Optimality or Evolutionary Stability? |
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3 Social Learning and Culture |
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3.3 Cultures among Animals |
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3.4 Human Culture and Cultural Evolution |
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3.5 A Theory of Cultural Evolution |
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4 Evolution and Human Behavior |
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4.2 Integrating Competing Approaches to Human Behavior |
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4.3 Testing Adaptation in Humans |
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4.4 How to Deal with Uniqueness? |
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4.5 Reconstructing our Origins |
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4.6 Conclusions and Outlook |
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Section II The History Of Humans |
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5 Ancestors: Humans from a Comparative Perspective |
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5.2 Our Deep History up to the Concestor |
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5.3 The (Near-) Endpoint: Foragers |
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6 Human Evolution: A Brief Overview |
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6.2 The First Hominins: The Origins of Bipedalism |
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6.3 The Australopithecines and Early Homo |
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6.5 Middle Pleistocene Hominins |
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6.6 Modern Humans: Homo sapiens |
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Section III Subsistence And Technology |
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101 | (16) |
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7.4 Extractive Foraging and Hunting by Primates |
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8 Forager Ecology and Subsistence |
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8.3 Obtaining Food: Gathering and Hunting |
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8.4 Fluctuations in Energy Intake |
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8.5 The Sexual Division of Labor |
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8.6 Central Place Provisioning |
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8.7 Paleodiet, Exercise, and Diseases of Civilization |
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9 The Evolution of Technology |
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9.2 Tool Use and Technology |
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9.3 The Evolution of Primate Tool Use |
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9.4 Nonhuman Primates and Hominins Compared |
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Section IV Sex And Sexual Selection |
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10 Sex, Sexual Selection and Sex Differences |
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10.4 Intrasexual Selection |
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10.6 Sex Role Equality and Reversal: Who Competes, Who Chooses? |
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10.8 Sex Differences Beyond Weapons and Ornaments |
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11 Mating Systems and Sexuality in Primates |
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11.2 Sexual Selection in Primates |
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11.3 Sex in Mammals: The Mating Problem |
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11.4 Features of Primate Sexuality |
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11.5 Explaining the Variation in Primate Sexuality |
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12 Human Mating Systems and Sexuality |
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12.2 The Human Mating System: Morphological and Physiological Signals |
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12.3 The Human Mating System: Ethnography and Behavior |
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12.5 Mating Conflict in Humans |
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12.7 Notable Sexual Behavior |
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13 Aesthetic Appreciation and Expression |
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Section V Life's Changes |
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14.2 General Patterns in Mammalian Life History |
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14.3 The Evolution of Life History |
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14.4 Life History and Behavior |
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15 Parenting and Reproductive Investment |
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15.4 Communal Breeding among Primates |
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15.5 Cooperative Breeding among Primates |
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15.6 Primate Investment Patterns: Seasonality and Life History |
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15.8 Allocation Decisions |
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15.9 Conflicts around Reproduction |
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16 Growth and Development |
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16.1 Developmental Stages |
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16.2 Somatic Growth and Development |
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16.3 Behavioral Aspects: Bonds, Play, Skill Acquisition |
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16.5 Plasticity in Development |
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Section VI Social Life |
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17 Social Life in Nonhuman Primates |
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17.2 Competition and Conflict |
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17.3 Group Living and Its Function |
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17.4 How to Live in a Group? |
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18.2 The Socioecological Paradigm |
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18.6 Social Evolution in Primates |
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19 Social Evolution in Hominins |
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19.2 The Social Organization of Foragers |
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19.3 The Key Features of Human Social Organization |
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19.4 The Evolution of Human Pair Bonds |
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19.5 The Evolution of Human Social Organization |
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19.6 Human Social Evolution since the Neolithic Period |
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19.7 Changes in Historical Time |
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19.8 Human Social Life: Politics |
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Section VII Cooperation |
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20.1 The Challenge of Cooperation |
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20.2 The Evolution of Cooperation in Nonhuman Primates |
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20.3 The Proximate Regulation of Primate Cooperation |
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20.4 Human Cooperation in Small-scale Societies |
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20.5 Human Cooperation in Large-scale Societies |
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21.2 The Phylogeny of War: Between-group Contests among Animals |
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21.3 Human Warfare and Its Cultural Evolution |
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21.4 War as an Adaptation |
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21.5 The Proximate Control of Warfare |
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22.2 Biology and Morality |
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22.3 The Biological Basis of Human Morality |
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22.4 Cultural Influences on Human Morality |
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22.5 Phylogeny and Morality |
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22.6 Philosophical Implications |
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23.2 The History of Religion |
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23.4 The Changing Function(s) of Religion |
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23.5 Religion and Science |
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23.6 Creationism and Intelligent Design |
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Section VIII The Cognitive Animal |
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24 The Evolution of Brain Size |
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24.1 Brains and Energy Constraints |
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24.2 The Expensive Brain: Life-history Costs of Brain Size Increase |
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24.3 Explaining Variation in (Relative) Brain Size: Life-history Filters |
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24.4 Explaining the Increase in Hominin Brain Size |
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25 The Evolution of Primate Cognition |
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25.2 The Cognitive Skills of Primates |
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25.3 Grade Shifts: Monkeys, Apes, and Humans |
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25.4 Cognitive Development |
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25.5 The Structure of Primate Cognition |
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25.6 The Evolution of Primate and Human Cognition |
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26.2 Animal Communication |
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26.4 The Functional Uses of Language |
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26.5 The Evolutionary History of Language |
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26.6 Language Development |
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26.7 Language and Cultural Evolution |
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26.8 Language and Cognition |
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Section IX Conclusions |
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27 What Made Us Humans? A Preliminary Synthesis |
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27.3 The Cooperative Breeder and Hunter in Us |
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27.5 Novel Expressions of Human Nature |
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References |
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Glossary |
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Index |
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