Western Civilization in Biological Perspective : Patterns in Biohistory

by: Boyden, S.

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The author explores the patterns of interplay between the biological and cultural processes in human affairs, beginning with the emergence in evolution of "homo sapiens" and carries his survey through the early farming and urban phases of human existence up to the present day.

Biohistorical perspectives; Adaptation; Human needs and human behaviour; The primeval phase of human experience; The early farming phase; The early urban phase; The transition to the high-energy phase and the public health movement; Interrelationships between society and the biosphere in the high-energy phase; Societal developments in the high-energy phase; Humans in the high-energy phase; Possibilities for the future in biohistorical perspective; Appendix: Conceptual schemes; References; Index.

Subjects:
Biologie Geschichte
Geschichte Biologie
Humanökologie
Kulturelle Evolution
Soziobiologie

Western Civilization in Biological Perspective : Patterns in Biohistory

by: Boyden, S.

• ISBN-13: 9780198577423 / 978-0-19-857742-3
• ISBN-03: 0198577427 / 0-19-857742-7
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock