Bruce Winterhalder: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyArchaeological research shows that many human populations continued to hunt-and-gather for thousands of years after beginning the use of plant domesticates. This kind of mixed economy is rare in the ethnographic literature on foragers and horticulturalists; its persistence for millennia in the early stages of agricultural origins is inexplicable […]
Michael Shermer: Skeptic MagazineThere are a number of parallels between evolution and economics that we shall explore on two tiers—historical and theoretical: the parallels between natural selection and the invisible hand; the nature of evolution and the characteristics of a free market economy; the reluctance to accept the theory of evolution and free market economics; […]
Nancy Burley: UC Irvine Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologySexual imprinting, a process by which early contact with parents shapes the mate preferences of developing young, has been widely documented among birds and has been reported for other vertebrates, especially mammals (including humans). Historically, studies of imprinting have emphasized causal and ontogenetic perspectives, with function […]
