Title: Niche Construction and Human Behavioral Ecology: Tools for Understanding Work
Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses the link between evolution and work in a different way. It asks what effects organisms’ work has on the process of evolution itself. It also continues beyond niche construction to demonstrate how research on human behavioral ecology can effectively be used to evaluate human work. This chapter shows that there are likely to be many species for which cultural niche construction plays an evolutionary role, and a multitude of other species in which noncultural niche construction influences evolution. It argues that the traditional optimality methods of behavioral ecology, so far largely restricted to small-scale, traditional societies, could still be of utility in predicting human behavior in the contemporary workplace.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-07
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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