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Second Nature : Economic Origins of Human Evolution by Haim Ofek (2001, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521625343
ISBN-139780521625340
eBay Product ID (ePID)1873765
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Number of Pages268 Pages
Publication NameSecond Nature : Economic Origins of Human Evolution
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEconomic History, Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
AuthorHaim Ofek
Subject AreaScience, Business & Economics
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN00-036293
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"...Ofek's book is in fact remarkable because it gives interesting, exhausting and insightful answers to old problems and, at the same time, it provides a new way to approach human evolution from the economic viewpoint." Joao Ricardo Faria, EH.NET, '... the boldness, coherence, and sweep of the book are impressive ... an exhilarating and interesting read that raises powerful questions about how humans got here and how we should be studied.'Science, "...the boldness, coherence, and sweep of the book are impressive...Ofek has good and highly persuasive ideas about his main concern, which is the importance and centrality of economic analysis from an early point in human evolution...Second Nature is an exhilarating and interesting read that raises powerful questions about how humans got here and how we should be studied." Science, "Ofek's book is in fact remarkable because it gives interesting, exhausting and insightful answers to old problems and, at the same time, it provides a new way to approach human evolution from the economic viewpoint. I hope it will stimulate the research on the economics of prehistory." Economic History Network, "Ofek sythesizes an enourmous range of research on human origins to advance to key role of exchange of goods and services in the evolution of distinctively human species.... This superb book seems poised to be a touchstone for work in prehistory and human origins for the forseeable future; essential for all academic libraries; highly recommended for others." Choice, ‘… the boldness, coherence, and sweep of the book are impressive … an exhilarating and interesting read that raises powerful questions about how humans got here and how we should be studied.’Science, '… the boldness, coherence, and sweep of the book are impressive … an exhilarating and interesting read that raises powerful questions about how humans got here and how we should be studied.' Science, '... the boldness, coherence, and sweep of the book are impressive ... an exhilarating and interesting read that raises powerful questions about how humans got here and how we should be studied.' Science
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.3093
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. Bioeconomics: 2. Exchange in human and nonhuman societies; 3. Classical economics and classical Darwinism; 4. Evolutionary implications of division of labour; 5. The feeding ecology; 6. The origins of nepotistic exchange; 7. Baboon speciation versus human specialization; Part II. Paleoeconomics: 8. Departure from the feed-as-you-go strategy; 9. The origins of market exchange; 10. Domestication of fire in relation to market exchange; 11. The Upper Paleolithic and other creative explosions; 12. Transition to agriculture: the limiting factor; 13. Transition to agriculture: the facilitating factor; References; Index.
SynopsisThis book spans two million years of human evolution and 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 of 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., Was exchange an early agent of human evolution or is it merely a de novo artifact of modern civilisation? Here, Haim Ofek explores the impact of market forces on human evolution, from the feed-as-you-go strategy typical of primates to the development of agriculture and the domestication of fire., 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.
LC Classification NumberGN281.4 .O35 2001
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