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Social information transmission and human biology /
- Title
- Social information transmission and human biology / edited by Jonathan C.K. Wells, Simon Strickland, and Kevin Laland.
- Publication
- Boca Raton, FL : CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006.
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- Description
- 289 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Society for the Study of Human Biology series ; 46
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- An introduction to evolutionary models of human social behavior -- How niche construction contributes to human gene-culture coevolution -- State and value : a perspective from behavioral ecology -- An agnostic view of memes -- Biological ends and human social information transmission -- The significance of socially transmitted information for nutrition and health in the great ape Clade -- Language : costs and benefits of a specialized system for social information transmission -- The evolution of social information transmission in Homo -- From cultural history to cultural evolution : an archaeological perspective on social information transmission -- The uptake of modern contraception in a Gambian community : the diffusion of an innovation over 25 years -- Sex without birth or death : a comparison of two international humanitarian movements -- Smoking and the new health education in Britain, 1950s-1970s -- The demographic and health impact of the one child family policy -- Social trends and psychopathology -- Epilogue : memory, tradition, and teleology
- ISBN
- 0849340470
- 9780849340475
- LCCN
- 2006044585
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library