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Human behavioral ecology: I
Author(s) -
Smith Eric Alden
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
evolutionary anthropology: issues, news, and reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1520-6505
pISSN - 1060-1538
DOI - 10.1002/evan.1360010107
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , ecology , behavioral ecology , set (abstract data type) , subsistence agriculture , genius , key (lock) , sociology , epistemology , psychology , computer science , biology , philosophy , agriculture , developmental psychology , mathematics , pure mathematics , programming language
New fields of inquiry rarely spring fully grown from the forehead of a single genius, and in addition, it is often difficult to decide when a related set of inquiries has coalesced sufficiently to define a field. As measured by the solicitation and publication of review articles, human behavioral ecology has recently become a self‐conscious field, for this is the third essay to review it 1,2 and a book‐length survey will appear later this year. 3 In this two‐part article, I will try to give readers a sense of the field by outlining its theoretical and methodological principles and key issues and by summarizing representative studies and unresolved questions in three main topical areas: subsistence strategies (Part I) and reproductive strategies and social interactions (Part II).