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- catalog abstract "Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Was exchange an early agent of human evolution or is it merely an artifact of modern civilisation? Spanning two million years of human evolution, this book explores the impact of economics on human evolution and natural history. The theory of evolution by natural selection has always relied in part on progress in areas of science outside biology. By applying economic principles at the borderlines of biology, Haim Ofek shows how some of the outstanding issues in human evolution, such as the increase in human brain size and the expansion of the environmental niche humans occupied, can be answered. He identifies distinct economic forces at work, beginning with the transition from the feed-as-you-go strategy of primates, through hunter-gathering and the domestication of fire to the development of agriculture. This highly readable book will inform and intrigue general readers and those in fields such as evolutionary biology and psychology, economics, and anthropology. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Human evolution, Economics, Prehistoric, Commerce, Prehistoric, Economic history.".
- catalog contributor b12347414.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-236) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Exchange in human and nonhuman societies -- Classical economics and classical Darwinism -- Evolutionary implications of division of labor -- The feeding ecology -- The origins of nepotistic exchange -- The origins of market exchange -- Baboon speciation vs human speciation -- Tool making and food sharing -- The global environment -- The Upper Paleolithic and other creative explosions -- The rise of agriculture.".
- catalog description "Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Was exchange an early agent of human evolution or is it merely an artifact of modern civilisation? Spanning two million years of human evolution, this book explores the impact of economics on human evolution and natural history. The theory of evolution by natural selection has always relied in part on progress in areas of science outside biology. By applying economic principles at the borderlines of biology, Haim Ofek shows how some of the outstanding issues in human evolution, such as the increase in human brain size and the expansion of the environmental niche humans occupied, can be answered. He identifies distinct economic forces at work, beginning with the transition from the feed-as-you-go strategy of primates, through hunter-gathering and the domestication of fire to the development of agriculture. This highly readable book will inform and intrigue general readers and those in fields such as evolutionary biology and psychology, economics, and anthropology. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Human evolution, Economics, Prehistoric, Commerce, Prehistoric, Economic history.".
- catalog extent "254 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521623995".
- catalog identifier "0521625343 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "306.3/093 21".
- catalog subject "Commerce, Prehistoric.".
- catalog subject "Economic history.".
- catalog subject "Economics, Prehistoric.".
- catalog subject "GN281.4 .O35 2001".
- catalog subject "Human evolution.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Exchange in human and nonhuman societies -- Classical economics and classical Darwinism -- Evolutionary implications of division of labor -- The feeding ecology -- The origins of nepotistic exchange -- The origins of market exchange -- Baboon speciation vs human speciation -- Tool making and food sharing -- The global environment -- The Upper Paleolithic and other creative explosions -- The rise of agriculture.".
- catalog title "Second nature : economic origins of human evolution / Haim Ofek.".
- catalog type "text".