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By Mhairi A. Gibson,David W. Lawson

ISBN-10: 1493902792

ISBN-13: 9781493902798

ISBN-10: 1493954962

ISBN-13: 9781493954964

As a species, we're presently experiencing dramatic shifts in our way of life, kin constitution, health and wellbeing, and international touch. Evolutionary Anthropology offers a robust theoretical framework to check such adjustments, revealing how present environments and legacies of prior choice form human range. This e-book is the 1st significant evaluation of the rising box of utilized Evolutionary Anthropology bringing jointly the paintings of a world staff of evolutionary scientists, addressing a number of the significant public healthiness and social problems with this century. via a chain of case experiences that span either rural and concrete occasions in Africa, Asia, Europe and South the US, each one bankruptcy addresses subject matters similar to traditional source administration, well-being carrier supply, inhabitants progress and the emergence of latest relatives constructions, nutritional, and co-operative behaviours. The study awarded identifies the good, mostly untapped, strength that utilized Evolutionary Anthropology holds to lead the layout, implementation and assessment of potent social and public healthiness coverage. This ebook can be of curiosity to policy-makers and utilized researchers, besides lecturers and scholars around the organic and social sciences.

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