Life History Evolution: A Biological Meta-Theory for the Social Sciences (Hardcover, 2018)

1. Life History Theory: An Overview in Abstract Part I: Huntington, Crosby, and Baker 2. Ellsworth Huntington's Victorian Climatic Writings 3. Alfred W. Crosby: Adapting within a Matrix of Flora and Fauna 4. The Historical Geography of Alan R. H. Baker: Scratching Out a Living after the Neolithic Revolution Part II: Price, Malthus, and Landers 5. Richard Price: The Schedules of Mortality 6. Thomas Robert Malthus, Stratification, and Subjugation: Closing the Commons and Opening the Factory 7. Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death: John Maxwell Landers' Four Horseman Spurring Humans Faster Along the Life History Continuum Part III: Toynbee, McNeill, and Casey 8. Arnold Joseph Toynbee: The Role of Life History in Civilization Cycling 9. William H. McNeill: Epidemiological and Biogeographical Perspectives on Civilization 10. James Casey: Extrapolating from Early Modern Iberia Part IV: Murdock, Keeley, and Harris 11. George Peter Murdock: Stemming the Tide of Sterility with an Atlas of World Cultures 12. Lawrence H. Keeley: Pre-State Societies in the Hobbesian Trap 13. Marvin Harris: Ecological Anthropology and Cultural Materialism Part V: Montesquieu, Mann, and Goldthorpe 14. The Baron de Montesquieu: Towards a Geography of Political Culture 15. Michael Mann and Societal Aggregation: From Tribe, to Fief, to City-State, to Nation, to Empire 16. John Harry Goldthorpe: Weighing the Biological Ballast Informing Class Structure and Class Mobility Part VI: Cattell, Bowlby, and Bronfenbrenner 17. Raymond B. Cattell: Bequeathing a Dual Inheritance to Life History Theory 18. Edward John Mostyn Bowlby: Reframing Parental Investment and Offspring Attachment 19. Uri Bronfenbrenner: Towards an Evolutionary Ecological Systems Theory