""à required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies."" --American Journal of Human Biology ""This excellent book can serve both as a text book and as a scholarly reference."" --American Scientist

1: Theoretical Foundations; 1: Evolutionary Ecology and the Social Sciences; 2: Natural Selection and Decision-Making: Some Fundamental Principles; 3: Cultural Inheritance and Evolutionary Ecology; 2: Closest Kin; 4: Evolutionary Ecology of Primate Social Structure; 5: Evolutionary Ecology of Fossil Hominids; 3: Resources, Work, and Space; 6: The Evolutionary Ecology of Food Acquisition; 7: Time Allocation; 8: Spatial Organization and Habitat Use; 4: Reproduction and Social Relations; 9: Sharing and Collective Action; 10: Competition, Conflict, and The Development of Social Hierarchies; 11: Reproductive Decisions; 12: Resources and Population Dynamics