Haim Ofek

Second Nature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how market forces and economics can help answer fundamental questions of human evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9780521623995
• ISBN-10: 0521623995
• Artikelnr.: 21850815

Autorenporträt

Haim Ofek is Professor of Economics at Binghamton University, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
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.