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Darwinian Archaeologies
Herbert . Ed(S): Maschner
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Description for Darwinian Archaeologies
Hardback. Explores the fundamental importance of Darwinian theory to archaeology. This work describes the myriad of approaches that archaeologists have taken while investigating prehistory through a Darwinian paradigm. Editor(s): Maschner, Herbert. Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HD; RG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1320.
Just over 20 years ago the publication of two books indicated the reemergence of Darwinian ideas on the public stage. E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis and Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, spelt out and developed the implications of ideas that had been quietly revolutionizing biology for some time. Most controversial of all, needless to say, was the suggestion that such ideas had implications for human behavior in general and social behavior in particular. Nowhere was the outcry greater than in the field of anthropology, for anthropologists saw themselves as the witnesses and defenders of human di versity and ... Read more
Just over 20 years ago the publication of two books indicated the reemergence of Darwinian ideas on the public stage. E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis and Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, spelt out and developed the implications of ideas that had been quietly revolutionizing biology for some time. Most controversial of all, needless to say, was the suggestion that such ideas had implications for human behavior in general and social behavior in particular. Nowhere was the outcry greater than in the field of anthropology, for anthropologists saw themselves as the witnesses and defenders of human di versity and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306453281
SKU
V9780306453281
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