Rethinking Human Adaptation: Biological and Cultural Models

by Rada Dyson-Hudson, Eric Alden Smith, Michael a Little

Most anthropologists agree that a comprehension of adaptation and adaptive processes is central to an understanding of human biological and behavioural systems. However, there is little agreement among archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and human biologists as to what adaptation means and how it should be analyzed. Because of this lack of a common underlying theory, method, and perspective, the subdisciplines have tended to move apart, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367285894
• ISBN13: 9780367285890
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages