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Human behavioral ecology and its evil twin

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Human behavioral evolutionary studies tend to interpret behavioral diversity in terms of either "culture" or ecology. Although human behavioral ecology and cultural evolution seem to be different fields, their protagonists often taking different approaches and generating different conclusions, they are in fact 2 kinds of explanation that are hard to tell apart in the real world. Many studies of the evolution of human behavior situate behavior in the context of ecological, cultural, and social environments. The task now is to test explicit evolutionary models against real-world data, preferably on different scales. Cultural phylogenetics and social network analysis have been employed to help in this task, used within the framework of behavioral ecology.

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  • Ruth Mace, 2014. "Human behavioral ecology and its evil twin," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 25(3), pages 443-449.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:25:y:2014:i:3:p:443-449.
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    1. Bruce Winterhalder, 2015. "Jared Diamond: The world until yesterday: what can we learn from traditional societies?," Journal of Bioeconomics, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 303-307, October.
    2. Alberto J. C. Micheletti & Graeme D. Ruxton & Andy Gardner, 2020. "The demography of human warfare can drive sex differences in altruism," Post-Print hal-02493903, HAL.
    3. Mason Youngblood & David Lahti, 2018. "A bibliometric analysis of the interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 4(1), pages 1-9, December.

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