ISBN:
9783319901251
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (407 pages)
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DDC:
303.4
Keywords:
Social evolution
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Life History Theory: An Overview in Abstract -- References -- Part I Huntington, Crosby, and Baker -- Chapter 2 Ellsworth Huntington's Victorian Climatic Writings -- 1 Ellsworth Huntington's Climate-Colored Glasses -- 2 Mapping the Distribution of Civilization -- 3 Mapping the Distribution of Life History -- 4 The Life History Response to Eurasian Ecology -- References -- Chapter 3 Alfred W. Crosby: Adapting Within a Matrix of Flora and Fauna -- 1 The Walt Whitman of World History -- 2 The Columbian Exchange -- 3 Symbiotic Portmanteau Assemblages -- 4 Europeans and Amerindian Life Histories Before and After the Columbian Exchange -- References -- Chapter 4 The Historical Geography of Alan R. H. Baker: Scratching Out a Living After the Neolithic Revolution -- 1 The Historical Geography of A. R. H. Baker -- 2 Straddling the Divide -- 3 Baker in Life History Perspective -- 4 Support and Future Investigation -- References -- Part I Section Metacommentary -- References -- Part II Price, Malthus, and Landers -- Chapter 5 Richard Price: The Schedules of Mortality -- 1 Richard Price: Life and Works -- 2 Insuring Against Mortality -- 3 Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Mortality -- 4 Comparative Evidence -- References -- Chapter 6 Thomas Robert Malthus, Stratification, and Subjugation: Closing the Commons and Opening the Factory -- 1 Scourge of the English Poor -- 2 Population Pressure -- 3 Population Density: A Driver of Life History Speed -- 4 Density-Dependent Life History Effects -- References -- Chapter 7 Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death: John Maxwell Landers' Four Horseman Spurring Humans Faster Along the Life History Continuum -- 1 The Historical Evolution of Urban Populations -- 2 Fertility, Infection, Technology, War, and Death.
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