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Second Nature:

Economic Origins of

Human Evolution

Haim Ofek

Cambridge University Press

Second Nature

Economic Origins of Human Evolution

Was exchange an early agent of human evolution or is it merely an arti-

fact of modern civilization? Spanning 2 million years of natural history,

this book explores the impact of economics on human evolution. The

theory of evolution by natural selection has always relied in part on

progress in areas of science outside biology. By applying economic prin-

ciples at the borderlines of biology, Haim Ofek shows how some of the

outstanding issues in human evolution, such as the increase in human

brain size and the expansion of the environmental niche humans occu-

pied, can be answered. He identifies distinct economic forces at work,

beginning with the transition from the feed-as you-go strategy of

primates through hunting-gathering and the domestication of fire to the

development of agriculture. This highly readable book will inform and

intrigue general readers and those in fields such as evolutionary biology

and psychology, economics, and anthropology.

haim ofek is Professor of Economics at Binghamton University, NY.

Second Nature

Economic Origins of Human Evolution

Haim Ofek

Department of Economics

Binghamton University

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