Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Darwinian Approaches to Contempora
As a species, we are currently experiencing dramatic shifts in our lifestyle, family structure, health, and global contact. Evolutionary Anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework to study such changes, revealing how current environments and l
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Mhairi A. Gibson • David W. Lawson Editors
Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues
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Editors Mhairi A. Gibson Department of Archaeology and Anthropology University of Bristol Bristol United Kingdom
David W. Lawson Department of Population Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London United Kingdom
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Foreword Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
There is a new confidence in the social and biological sciences in the value of our work, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the emergence of “evidencebased” fields. In the wake of the successes of evidence-based medicine (Sackett et al. 1996), in conservation biology we now have evidence-based conservation (Sutherland et al. 2004), in economics something fast approaching evidence-based development economics (Banerjee and Duflo 2012), and in policy the stirrings of similar movement (Biglan and Cody 2013). Sharing a commitment to
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