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136-017 Cooperation and Conflict: Evolutionary Ecology and Social Behaviour | |
Note | Formerly available as 136-295/395. Students who have completed 136-295/395 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr Monica Minnegal |
Prerequisites | see Prerequisites |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures, ten 2-hour lectures and ten 1-hour tutorials |
Subject Description | Evolutionary ecology explores functional relationships between behaviour and context in order to understand why people in different times and places act as they do. The emphasis is on variation in behaviour, both within and between societies. This subject will introduce the logic of evolutionary ecology and discuss how its analyses contribute to and articulate with a broader understanding of human behaviour. Ethnographic examples will be used to explore the application of evolutionary ecology to understanding patterns of resource procurement, the organisation of access to material and social resources, life history strategies and reproductive behaviour, gender roles, formation and maintenance of groups for production and consumption, alliance formation and the emergence of social complexity. |
Assessment | Two class papers of 500 words each and an essay of 3000 words. |
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