Second Nature Economic Origins of Human Evolution

Name: Second Nature Economic Origins of Human Evolution
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ISBN: 9780521623995

ISBN-10: 0521623995

ISBN-13: 9780521623995

Edition: 2000

Authors: Haim Ofek

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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…

Book details

List price: $137.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/25/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 266
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Haim Ofek is Professor of Economics at Binghamton University, NY.



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Bioeconomics



Exchange in human and nonhuman societies



Classical economics and classical Darwinism



Evolutionary implications of division of labour



The feeding ecology



The origins of nepotistic exchange



Baboon speciation versus human specialization



Paleoeconomics



Departure from the feed-as-you-go strategy



The origins of market exchange



Domestication of fire in relation to market exchange



The Upper Paleolithic and other creative explosions



Transition to agriculture: the limiting factor



Transition to agriculture: the facilitating factor


References


Index