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Second nature : economic origins of human evolution / Haim Ofek.
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View onlinePenn Museum Library GN281.4 .O35 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ofek, Haim, 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human evolution.
- Economics, Prehistoric.
- Commerce, Prehistoric.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Explores how market forces and economics can help answer fundamental questions of human evolution.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Exchange in human and nonhuman societies
- Classical economics and classical Darwinism
- Evolutionary implications of division of labor
- The feeding ecology
- The origins of nepotistic exchange
- Baboon speciation versus human specialization
- Departure from the feed-as-you-go strategy
- The origins of market exchange
- Domestication of fire in relation to market exchange
- The Upper Paleolithic and other creative explosions
- Transition to agriculture : the limiting factor
- Transition to agriculture : the facilitating factor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521623995
- 0521625343
- OCLC:
- 43811106
- Online:
- Publisher description
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