Reproductive ecology and human evolution
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Reproductive ecology and human evolution
Transaction Publishers, c2011
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- Machine generated contents note: PART I: PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTEXT 13
- 1 Pregnancy Loss and Fecundability in Women 15
- Darryl J. Holman and James W. Wood
- 2 The Evolutionary and Ecological Context
- of Human Pregnancy 39
- Ivy L. Pike
- 3 Why Energy Expenditure Causes Reproductive
- Suppression in Women 59
- An Evolutionary and Bioenergetic Perspective
- Grazyna Jasienska
- 4 Lactation, Energetics, and Postpartum Fecundity 85
- Claudia R. Valeggia and Peter T. Ellison
- 5 Reproductive Physiology of the Human Male 107
- An Evolutionary and Life History Perspective
- Richard G. Bribiescas
- PART II: ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT 136
- 6 Reproductive Filtering and the Social Environment 137
- Samuel K. Wasser and Ned J. Place
- 7 Reproductive Ecology of Male Immune
- Function and Gonadal Function 159
- Benjamin C. Campbell, William D. Lukas,
- and Kenneth L. Campbell
- 8 Why Not So Great Is Still Good Enough 179
- Flexible Responsiveness in Human Reproductive
- Functioning
- Virginia J. Vitzthum
- 9 Fertility Changes with the Prehistoric Transition
- to Agriculture 203
- Perspectives from Reproductive Ecology and Paleodemography
- Gillian R. Bentley, Richard R. Paine, and
- Jesper L. Boldsen
- PART III: DEVELOPMENTAL CONTEXT 233
- 10 Metabolism, Maturation, and Ovarian Function 235
- Susan F. Lipson
- 11 Child Survival and the Modulation 249
- of Parental Investment
- Physiological and Hormonal Considerations
- Helen Ball and Catherine Panter-Brick
- 12 Aging and Reproductive Senescence 267
- Lynnette Leidy Sievert
- 13 The Embodied Capital Theory of Human Evolution 293
- Hillard Kaplan, Kim Hill, A. Magdelena Hurtado,
- and Jane Lancaster
- PART IV: COMPARATIVE CONTEXT 319
- 14 Strepsirrhine Reproductive Ecology 321
- Patricia L. Whitten and Diane K. Brockman
- 15 Reproductive Ecology of New World Monkeys 351
- Karen B. Strier
- 16 Reproductive Ecology of Old World Monkeys 369
- Fred B. Bercovitch
- 17 The Reproductive Ecology of Male Hominoids 397
- Martin N. Muller and Richard W. Wrangham
- 18 Female Reproductive Ecology of the Apes 429
- Implicationsfor Human Evolution
- Cheryl Knott
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The study of human reproductive ecology represents an important new development in human evolutionary biology. Its focus is on the physiology of human reproduction and evidence of adaptation, and hence the action of natural selection, in that domain. But at the same time the study of human reproductive ecology provides an important perspective on the historical process of human evolution, a lens through which we may view the forces that have shaped us as a species. In the end, all actions of natural selection can be reduced to variation in the reproductive success of individuals.Peter Ellison is one of the pioneers in the fast growing area of reproductive ecology. He has collected for this volume the research of thirty-one of the most active and influential scientists in the field. Thanks to recent noninvasive techniques, these contributors can present direct empirical data on the effect of a broad array of ecological, behavioral, and constitutional variables on the reproductive processes of humans as well as wild primates. Because biological evolution is cumulative, however, organisms in the present must be viewed as products of the selective forces of past environments. The study of adaptation thus often involves inferences about formative ecological relationships that may no longer exist, or not in the same form. Making such inferences depends on carefully weighing a broad range of evidence drawn from studies of contemporary ecological variation, comparative studies of related taxonomies, and paleontological and genetic evidence of evolutionary history. The result of this inquiry sheds light not only on the functional aspects of an organism's contemporary biology but also on its evolutionary history and the selective forces that have shaped it through time.Encompassing a range of viewpoints--controversy along with consensus--this far-ranging collection offers an indispensable guide for courses in biological anthropology, human biology, and primatology, along with demography, medicine, social anthropology, and public health.
目次
Contributors, Introduction, Ecology, Reproduction, and Human Evolution, PART I: PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTEXT, PART II: ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT, PART III: DEVELOPMENTAL CONTEXT, PART IV: COMPARATIVE CONTEXT, Index
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