Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective

, by Chagnon,Napoleon

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ISBN: 9780202020433 | 0202020436
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/15/2000

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Preface

Acknowledgment

xiii

Contributors

xiv

Part I Some Statements of Theory

Two Decades of a New Paradigm

(24)

William Irons

Lee Cronk

Three Styles in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behavior

(22)

Eric Alden Smith

Part II Mating

Polygyny, Family Structure, and Child Mortality: A Prospective Study among the Dogon of Mali

(20)

Beverly I. Strassmann

Paternal Investment and Hunter-Gatherer Divorce Rates

(22)

Nicholas G. Blurton Jones

Frank W. Marlowe

Kristen Hawkes

James F. O'Connell

Fertility, Offspring Quality, and Wealth in Datoga Pastoralists: Testing Evolutionary Models of Intersexual Selection

(24)

Daniel W. Sellen

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

Daniela F. Sieff

Manipulating Kinship Rules: A Form of Male Yanomamo Reproductive Competition

115

(18)

Napoleon A. Chagnon

Physical Attractiveness, Race, and Somatic Prejudice in Bahia, Brazil

133

(22)

Doug Jones

Part III Parenting

Parental Investment Strategies among Aka Foragers, Ngandu Farmers, and Euro-American Urban-Industralists

155

(24)

Barry S. Hewlett

Michael E. Lamb

Birgit Leyendecker

Axel Scholmerich

Parenting Other Men's Children: Costs, Benefits, and Consequences

179

(24)

Jane B. Lancaster

Hillard S. Kaplan

Female-Biased Parental Investment and Growth Performance among the Mukogodo

203

(20)

Lee Cronk

Why Do the Yomut Raise More Sons than Daughters?

223

(14)

William Irons

The Grandmother Grandmother Hypothesis and Human Evolution

237

(24)

Kristen Hawkes

James F. O'Connell

Nicholas Blurton Jones

Helen Alvarez

Eric L. Charnov

Part IV The Demographic Transition

An Adaptive Model of Human Reproductive Rate Where Wealth Is Inherited: Why People Have Small Families

261

(22)

Ruth Mace

The Evolutionary Economics and Psychology of the Demographic Transition to Low Fertility

283

(40)

Hillard S. Kaplan

Jane B. Lancaster

Sex, Wealth, and Fertility: Old Rules, New Environments

323

(22)

Bobbi S. Low

To Marry Again or Not: A Dynamic Model for Demographic Transition

345

(26)

Barney Luttbeg

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

Marc Mangel

Part V Sociality

Effects of IIIness and Injury on Foraging among the Yora and Shiwiar: Pathology Risk as Adaptive Problem

371

(26)

Lawrence S. Sugiyama

Richard Chacon

Reciprocal Altruism in Yamomamo Food Exchange

397

(20)

Raymond Hames

Reciprocal Altruism and Warfare: A Case from the Ecuadorian Amazon

417

(20)

John Q. Patton

The Emergence and Stability of Cooperative Fishing on Ifaluk Atoll

437

(38)

Richard Sosis

Part VI Conclusion

Twenty Years of Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: Where Are We Now?

475

(22)

J. Patrick Gray

Index

497

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