Second
Nature
Economic
Origins of Human Evolution
Was exchange an early agent
of human evolution or is it merely an arti-fact of modern civilization?
Spanning 2 million years of natural history,this book explores the impact of economics
on human evolution. Thetheory of evolution by natural selection has always
relied in part onprogress in areas of science outside biology. By applying
economic prin-ciples at the borderlines of biology, Haim Ofek shows
howsome of theoutstanding issues in human evolution, such as the increase in
human brain size and the expansion of the environmental niche humans
occu-pied, can be answered. He identifies distinct economic forces at work, beginning
with the transition from the feed-as you-go strategy of primates through hunting-gathering
and the domestication of fire to thedevelopment of agriculture. This highly
readable book will inform andintrigue general readers and those in fields such
as evolutionary biologyand psychology,
economics, and anthropology.
Haim Ofek is Professor
of Economics at Binghamton University, NY.
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