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Second nature : = economic origins of human evolution /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Second nature :/ Haim Ofek.
Reminder of title:	economic origins of human evolution /
Author:	Ofek, Haim,
Description:	1 online resource (254 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Human evolution. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511754937
ISBN:	9780511754937 (ebook)

Second nature : = economic origins of human evolution /
Ofek, Haim,1936-

Second nature :economic origins of human evolution /Haim Ofek. - 1 online resource (254 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Was exchange an early agent of human evolution or is it merely an artefact 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.

ISBN: 9780511754937 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

564173
Human evolution.

LC Class. No.: GN281.4 / .O35 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 306.3/093

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