By Mhairi A. Gibson,David W. Lawson
As a species, we're at present experiencing dramatic shifts in our way of life, relatives constitution, overall healthiness, and worldwide touch. Evolutionary Anthropology presents a strong theoretical framework to check such alterations, revealing how present environments and legacies of previous choice form human variety. This e-book is the 1st significant overview of the rising box of utilized Evolutionary Anthropology bringing jointly the paintings of a world staff of evolutionary scientists, addressing some of the significant public overall healthiness and social problems with this century. via a sequence of case reports that span either rural and concrete occasions in Africa, Asia, Europe and South the USA, each one bankruptcy addresses issues reminiscent of common source administration, health and wellbeing provider supply, inhabitants development and the emergence of latest family members buildings, nutritional, and co-operative behaviours. The study offered identifies the good, mostly untapped, power that utilized Evolutionary Anthropology holds to lead the layout, implementation and review of powerful social and public health and wellbeing coverage. This publication can be of curiosity to policy-makers and utilized researchers, besides lecturers and scholars around the organic and social sciences.
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Applied Evolutionary Anthropology: Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues: 1 (Advances in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behaviour) by Mhairi A. Gibson,David W. Lawson