Overview
Uses a novel approach wherein the works of leading and founding geographers, demographers, historians, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists are re-read using life history evolution
Highlights the untold unity among the social sciences, showing that the various disciplines which fall under the term are connected by more than just an interest in human nature
Proposes that life history evolution is an integral element throughout the social sciences
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Price, Malthus, and Landers
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Murdock, Keeley, and Harris
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Steven C. Hertler is a licensed examining psychologist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the College of Saint Elizabeth, USA.
Aurelio José Figueredo is Professor of Psychology, Family Studies and Human Development, and serves as Director of the Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology Laboratory within the Graduate Program in Cognition and Neural Systems at the University of Arizona, USA.
Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre is a PhD student in the Cognitive and Neural Systems Program, and a researcher in the Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology Laboratory at the University of Arizona, USA.
Heitor B. F. Fernandes is a PhD student at the University of Arizona, USA, where he functions as part of the Anxiety Research Group, and the Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology Lab.
Michael A. Woodley of Menie is Fellow with the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life History Evolution
Book Subtitle: A Biological Meta-Theory for the Social Sciences
Authors: Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Heitor B. F. Fernandes, Michael A. Woodley of Menie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90125-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90124-4Published: 20 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07938-3Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90125-1Published: 04 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 417
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological Psychology, Evolutionary Biology, Demography, Biological and Physical Anthropology, Community & Population Ecology