Social information transmission and human biology
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Published: |
CRC/Taylor & Francis,
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Publisher Address: | Boca Raton, FL |
Publication Dates: | 2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Society for the study of human biology series ; 46 |
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Carrier Form: | 289 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
0849340470 9780849340475 |
Index Number: | C912 |
CLC: |
C912.4 Q988 |
Call Number: | C912.4/S678-1 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. An introduction to evolutionary models of human social behavior -- How niche construction contributes to human gene-culture coevolution -- State and value : a perspective from behavioral ecology -- An agnostic view of memes -- Biological ends and human social information transmission -- The significance of socially transmitted information for nutrition and health in the great ape Clade -- Language : costs and benefits of a specialized system for social information transmission -- The evolution of social information transmission in Homo -- From cultural history to cultural evolution : an archaeological perspective on social information transmission -- The uptake of modern contraception in a Gambian community : the diffusion of an innovation over 25 years -- Sex without birth or death : a comparison of two international humanitarian movements -- Smoking and the new health education in Britain, 1950s-1970s -- The demographic and health impact of the one child family policy -- Social trends and psychopathology -- Epilogue : memory, tradition, and teleology |