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Sense and nonsense : evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour
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ISBN: 1423700880 9781423700883 0198508840 Year: 2002 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Oxford University Press

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Evolutionary psychology --- Genetics --- Biological Processes --- Genetic Processes --- Behavioral Sciences --- Biological Phenomena --- Genetic Phenomena --- Biology --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Phenomena and Processes --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Biological Evolution --- Genetics, Behavioral --- Social Sciences --- Psychology --- Behavioral Genetics --- Psychogenetics --- Behavior --- Sociobiology --- Evolution, Biological --- Natural Sciences --- Physical Sciences --- Discipline, Natural Science --- Disciplines, Natural Science --- Natural Science --- Natural Science Discipline --- Physical Science --- Science, Natural --- Science, Physical --- Sciences, Natural --- Sciences, Physical --- Biologic Sciences --- Biological Science --- Science, Biological --- Sciences, Biological --- Biological Sciences --- Life Sciences --- Biologic Science --- Biological Science Discipline --- Discipline, Biological Science --- Disciplines, Biological Science --- Life Science --- Science Discipline, Biological --- Science Disciplines, Biological --- Science, Biologic --- Science, Life --- Sciences, Biologic --- Sciences, Life --- Genetic Concepts --- Genetic Phenomenon --- Genetic Process --- Concept, Genetic --- Concepts, Genetic --- Genetic Concept --- Phenomena, Genetic --- Phenomenon, Genetic --- Process, Genetic --- Processes, Genetic --- Molecular Biology --- Biologic Phenomena --- Biological Phenomenon --- Biological Process --- Phenomena, Biological --- Phenomena, Biologic --- Phenomenon, Biological --- Process, Biological --- Processes, Biological --- Proxemics --- Behavioral Science --- Proxemic --- Science, Behavioral --- Sciences, Behavioral --- Genetic Structures --- Human evolution --- Genetics, Behavioral. --- Biological Evolution.

Niche construction
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ISBN: 0691044384 0691044376 9780691044378 1400847265 1299051545 9781400847266 9780691044385 9781299051546 9780691044385 Year: 2003 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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The seemingly innocent observation that the activities of organisms bring about changes in environments is so obvious that it seems an unlikely focus for a new line of thinking about evolution. Yet niche construction--as this process of organism-driven environmental modification is known--has hidden complexities. By transforming biotic and abiotic sources of natural selection in external environments, niche construction generates feedback in evolution on a scale hitherto underestimated--and in a manner that transforms the evolutionary dynamic. It also plays a critical role in ecology, supporting ecosystem engineering and influencing the flow of energy and nutrients through ecosystems. Despite this, niche construction has been given short shrift in theoretical biology, in part because it cannot be fully understood within the framework of standard evolutionary theory. Wedding evolution and ecology, this book extends evolutionary theory by formally including niche construction and ecological inheritance as additional evolutionary processes. The authors support their historic move with empirical data, theoretical population genetics, and conceptual models. They also describe new research methods capable of testing the theory. They demonstrate how their theory can resolve long-standing problems in ecology, particularly by advancing the sorely needed synthesis of ecology and evolution, and how it offers an evolutionary basis for the human sciences. Already hailed as a pioneering work by some of the world's most influential biologists, this is a rare, potentially field-changing contribution to the biological sciences.

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