Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: A Unified Approach
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Supplemental Case Materials -- Author -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- The Biocultural Approach -- Roadmap -- Key Features -- End Aims -- Acknowledgments -- Part I A Systems View of Human Adaptation -- Chapter 1 Anthropology and Complexity -- Where Did the Nature-Nurture Question Come From? -- Holistic Systems Thinking -- Ecosystems -- Complex Systems -- Studying Human Systems -- Chapter 2 Genetic Adaptation -- Genes and Traits -- Evolutionary Change -- The Role of Natural Selection in Evolution -- Other Kinds of Selection -- Co-Evolution and the Importance of Within-Population Variation -- Examples of Natural Selection -- Balanced Polymorphism -- Chapter 3 Developmental Adjustment and Epigenetic Change -- Developmental Adjustment -- Epigenetics -- Transgenerational Modifications -- Vocabulary Shifts -- Paradigm Shifts -- What Makes a Square a Square? -- Chapter 4 Emergence of Culture and People Like Us -- Culture's Adaptive Function -- Culture's Features -- The Emergence of Our Species -- Communication Becomes Necessary -- Ritual and the Cultural Revolution -- The Full Bloom of Culture -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Global Expansion, Human Variation, and the Invention of Race -- The Spread of Humanity -- Early Ideas about Human Variation -- Biological Race -- Racialization -- Ethnicity -- Geographic Clines -- Race's Social Significance and Self-Perpetuation -- One Race, Not Many -- Part II Socio-Political and Economic Factors -- Chapter 6 Foraging: A Human Baseline -- Nutrition Basics -- The Foraged Diet -- The Foraging Life -- Exceptions to the Rule -- Nourishing Babies -- Sleep -- Morbidity and Mortality among Foragers -- Chapter 7 Agricultural Revolution: Another Great Divide.