An introduction to evolutionary models of human social behavior

Kevin Laland; Gillian Brown

An introduction to evolutionary models of human social behavior

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We provide brief overviews and critical analyses of five evolutionary approaches to the study of human behavior: Human sociobiology, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution (memetics), and gene-culture coevolution. We go on to discuss how the five approaches differ in the emphasis they place on the role of social transmission in explaining human behavioral variation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Information Transmission and Human Biology
Publisher	CRC Press
Pages	19-37
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9781420005837
ISBN (Print)	9780849340475
Publication status	Published - 22 May 2006

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