Evolutionary anthropology

Evolutionary anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of the evolution of human physiology and human behaviour[1] and the relation between hominids and non-hominid primates. Evolutionary anthropology is based in natural science and social science. Various fields and disciplines of evolutionary anthropology are:

Human evolution and anthropogeny.
Paleoanthropology and paleontology of both human and non-human primates.
Primatology and primate ethology.
The sociocultural evolution of human behavior, including phylogenetic approaches to historical linguistics.
The evolutionary psychology and evolutionary linguistics of humans.
The archaeological study of human technology and change over time and space.
Human evolutionary genetics and changes in the human genome over time.
The neuroscience, endocrinology, and neuroanthropology of human and primate cognition, culture, actions and abilities.
Human behavioural ecology and the interaction of humans and the environment.
Studies of human anatomy, physiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and differences and changes between species, variation between human groups, and relationships to cultural factors.

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Evolutionary anthropology is concerned with both biological and cultural evolution of humans, past and present. It is based on a scientific approach, and brings together fields such as archaeology, behavioral ecology, psychology, primatology, and genetics. It is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field, drawing on many lines of evidence to understand the human experience, past and present.

Studies of biological evolution generally concern the evolution of the human form. Cultural evolution involves the study of cultural change over time and space and frequently incorporate cultural transmission models. Cultural evolution is not the same as biological evolution, and that human culture involves the transmission of cultural information, which behaves in ways quite distinct from human biology and genetics. The study of cultural change is increasingly performed through cladistics and genetic models.

References

Gibson, Mhairi A.; Lawson, David W. (2015). "Applying evolutionary anthropology". Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. 24 (1): 3–14. doi:10.1002/evan.21432. ISSN 1520-6505. PMC 4480655. PMID 25684561.

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Processes	Adaptation Altruism Coevolution Kin selection Sexual selection Evolutionarily stable strategy Social selection
Areas	Psychological development Morality Religion Depression Educational psychology Evolutionary aesthetics Music Darwinian literary studies Evolution of emotion
Biologists/ neuroscientists	John Crook Charles Darwin Richard Dawkins Jared Diamond W. D. Hamilton Peter Kropotkin Gordon Orians Jaak Panksepp Margie Profet Giacomo Rizzolatti Randy Thornhill Robert Trivers Carel van Schaik Claus Wedekind Wolfgang Wickler David Sloan Wilson E. O. Wilson George C. Williams Richard Wrangham
Anthropologists	Jerome H. Barkow Robert Boyd Napoleon Chagnon Gregory Cochran Robin Dunbar Daniel Fessler Mark Flinn Henry Harpending John D. Hawks Joseph Henrich Ruth Mace Daniel Nettle Stephen Shennan Donald Symons John Tooby Pierre van den Berghe
Behavioral economists/ political scientists	Samuel Bowles Ernst Fehr Herbert Gintis Dominic D. P. Johnson Gad Saad
Literary theory/ aesthetics	Edmund Burke Joseph Carroll Denis Dutton
Psychologists/ cognitive scientists	Simon Baron-Cohen Justin L. Barrett Jay Belsky David F. Bjorklund Paul Bloom Pascal Boyer Joseph Bulbulia David Buss Josep Call Anne Campbell Peter Carruthers Noam Chomsky Leda Cosmides Martin Daly Daniel Dennett Paul Ekman Anne Fernald Aurelio José Figueredo David C. Geary Gerd Gigerenzer Jonathan Haidt Judith Rich Harris Stephen Kaplan Douglas T. Kenrick Simon M. Kirby Robert Kurzban Michael T. McGuire Geoffrey Miller Darcia Narvaez Randolph M. Nesse Steven Neuberg David Perrett Steven Pinker Paul Rozin Mark Schaller David P. Schmitt Todd K. Shackelford Roger Shepard Peter K. Smith Dan Sperber Anthony Stevens Frank Sulloway Michael Tomasello Mark van Vugt Andrew Whiten Glenn Wilson Margo Wilson
Research centers/ organizations	Center for Evolutionary Psychology Human Behavior and Evolution Society Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences New England Complex Systems Institute
Related subjects and articles	The Adapted Mind The Evolution of Human Sexuality Evolutionary Psychology Evolution and Human Behavior Dual inheritance theory Memetics Group selection Cultural group selection Sociobiology Evolutionary neuroscience Human evolution Sociocultural evolution Evolutionary anthropology Evolutionary medicine Evolutionary linguistics Evolutionary psychology and culture Primatology Biosocial criminology Criticism of evolutionary psychology
Lists	Evolutionary psychologists Evolutionary psychology research groups and centers Bibliography of evolution and human behavior
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