Footbinding, industrialization, and evolutionary explanation: an empirical illustration of niche construction and social inheritance

MJ Brown - Human Nature, 2016 - Springer
The incorporation of niche construction theory (NCT) and epigenetics into an extended
evolutionary synthesis (EES) increases the explanatory power of evolutionary analyses of …

[图书][B] Niche Construction: How Life Contributes to Its Own Evolution

J Odling-Smee - 2024 - books.google.com
How niche construction theory extends evolutionary theory beyond natural selection to a
more general theory about the coevolution of organisms with their environments. In Niche …

Emigration and the care of older people 'left behind': the changing role of neighbourhood networks, ethnicity and civil society

E Schröder-Butterfill - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Rapid population ageing and international migration are demographic trends which
intersect and contribute to far-reaching transformations of local networks and communities …

Population theory—A long view

P Kreager - Population Studies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Any attempt to take a long view of population research, its findings, and applications is
bound to raise questions about the state of population theory. Recent research on the history …

Into the tangled web of culture-history and convergent evolution

HS Groucutt - Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Can We …, 2020 - Springer
The themes explored in this book revolve around the related areas of convergent
(independent) evolution of particular forms of material culture, the notion and recognition of …

Beyond the Biopolitics of Development: Being, Politics and World

S Alt - 2016 - research.rug.nl
The dissertation inquires into the biopolitics of development from the perspective of
conceptualising a 'beyond'of such biopolitics. This inquiry is informed by the need to re …

Smith or Malthus? A Sea‐Change in the Concept of a Population

P Kreager - Population and Development Review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This two‐part article offers a critical appreciation of Malthus's political economy of population
to mark the bi‐centenary of his Principles of Political Economy (1820). His general economic …

[图书][B] Human evolutionary demography

O Burger, R Lee, R Sear - 2024 - books.google.com
Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social
science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the …

Tigers on the mountain: Assessing Is Taiwan Chinese? in 2018 1

MJ Brown - Taiwan Studies Revisited, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Is Taiwan Chinese? still provides insights into the Taiwanese identity forged in the 1990s
and sociopolitical processes forming that identity. Ethnic labels have changed historically in …

Gendered Support for Older People in Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis

E Schröder-Butterfill, VP Dewi, TS Fithry… - … Handbook on Gender …, 2018 - Springer
This chapter considers implications of population ageing as it may impact on normative
gender preferences for old age care in three major Indonesian ethnic groups. The Asian …