Evolutionary Ethnobiology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Evolutionary Ethnobiology

   • Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Alejandro Casas

   Pages 1-5

3. Ecological-Evolutionary Approaches to the Human–Environment Relationship: History and Concepts

   • Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

   Pages 7-20

4. Evolution of Humans and by Humans

   • Alejandro Casas, Fabiola Parra, José Blancas

   Pages 21-36

5. Evolutionary Ecology and Ethnobiology

   • Alejandro Casas, Fabiola Parra, Selene Rangel, Susana Guillén, José Blancas, Carmen J. Figueredo

   Pages 37-57

6. Evolutionary Approaches to Ethnobiology

   • C. Haris Saslis-Lagoudakis, Nina Rønsted, Andrew C. Clarke, Julie A. Hawkins

   Pages 59-72

7. Niche Construction Theory and Ethnobiology

   • Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Flávia Rosa Santoro, Wendy Marisol Torres-Avilez, José Ribamar Sousa Júnior

   Pages 73-87

8. Knowledge Transmission: The Social Origin of Information and Cultural Evolution

   • Gustavo Taboada Soldati

   Pages 89-104

9. Resilience and Adaptation in Social-Ecological Systems

   • Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, André Luiz Borba Nascimento, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Flávia Rosa Santoro et al.

   Pages 105-119

10. Utilitarian Redundancy: Conceptualization and Potential Applications in Ethnobiological Research

    • André Luiz Borba Nascimento, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Flávia Rosa Santoro et al.

    Pages 121-130

11. The Influence of the Environment on Natural Resource Use: Evidence of Apparency

    • Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Joabe Gomes de Melo, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, André Luiz Borba Nascimento et al.

    Pages 131-147

12. Local Criteria for Medicinal Plant Selection

    • Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Ana Haydée Ladio, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

    Pages 149-162

13. Use Patterns of Medicinal Plants by Local Populations

    • Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

    Pages 163-174

14. Biological and Cultural Bases of the Use of Medicinal and Food Plants

    • Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Letícia Zenóbia de Oliveira Campos, Andrea Pieroni, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

    Pages 175-184

15. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Use of Hallucinogens

    • Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Margarita Paloma Cruz, Fábio José Vieira, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

    Pages 185-197

16. Back Matter

    Pages 199-204

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Ethnobiology is a fascinating science. To understand this vocation it needs to be studied under an evolutionary point of view that is very strong and significant, although this aspect is often poorly approached in the literature. This is the first book to compile and discuss information about evolutionary ethnobiology in English.

• Cultural evolution
• Ecological ethnobiology
• Evolutionary Ecology
• Evolutionary ethnobiology
• Niche Construction Theory

• Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

  Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

• Institute of Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia, Barreiras, Brazil

  Patrícia Muniz De Medeiros

• Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabiilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico

  Alejandro Casas

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

Laboratory of Applied and Theoretical Ethnobiology

Department of Biology

Federal Rural University of Pernambuco

Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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