Perspectives in Ethology Volume 13: Evolution, Culture, and Behavior

by Nicholas S. Thompson

Book Overview

The relations between behavior, evolution, and culture have been a subject of vigorous debate since the publication of Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871). The latest volume of Perspectives in Ethology brings anthropologists, ethologists, psychologists, and evolutionary theorists together to reexamine this important relation. With two exceptions (the essays by Brown and Eldredge), all of the present essays were originally presented at the Fifth Biannual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306464616
• ISBN13: 9780306464614
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"