Search Results - Evolutionary anthropology
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‘Optimising’ breastfeeding: what can we learn from evolutionary, comparative and anthropological aspects of lactation?
Published 2020“…Main body: We argue that broader consideration of lactation, incorporating evolutionary, comparative and anthropological aspects, could provide new insights into breastfeeding practices and problems, enhance research and ultimately help to develop novel approaches to improve initiation and maintenance. …”
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Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation
Published 2014“…The book argues for interdisciplinary 'consilience', linking evolutionary and complexity theory in the natural sciences, economics and anthropology in the social sciences, and cultural, communication and media studies in the humanities and creative arts. …”
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The notion of meaning and salvation in religious studies
Published 1979“…The major academic traditions of history, sociology, phenomenology, and anthropology of religion are shown to have been concerned with the question of 'meaning' and it is proposed that a general paradigm of meaning has now replaced the nineteenth century evolutionary paradigm. …”
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Paternal genetic structure in contemporary mennonite communities from the American midwest
Published 2016“…Over the last 35 years, researchers from the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology at the University of Kansas have been working with Mennonite communities to better understand evolutionary patterns of fission-fusion in relationship to their genetic history and population structure. …”
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Reframing a'theory of origin' of Malay architecture : a basis from the public realm
Published 2019“…Using these as departure points, the paper conceptualises an evolutionary ‘tree’ or geneanology which can account for the multiple and varied ethnocentric origins of the Malay world, argued as three main streams that had synthesised and mixed across time. …”
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Reframing a 'theory of origin' of Malay architecture: a basis from the public realm
Published 2019“…Using these as departure points, the paper conceptualises an evolutionary ‘tree’ or geneanology which can account for the multiple and varied ethnocentric origins of the Malay world, argued as three main streams that had synthesised and mixed across time. …”
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