Group-Centered Behavior and Cultural Growth: A Summary of Ecology and Superstructures

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1. I-X I
2. Population, Evolution, and Theoretical Paradigms 1
3. Determination of the Size, Density, and Growth Rate of Hunting-Gathering Populations 27
4. The Earliest Farming: Demography as Cause and Consequence 53
5. Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example From the Coast of Peru 79
6. Scarcity, the Factors of Production, and Social Evolution 123
7. Population and Social Variation in Early Bronze Age Denmark: A Systemic Approach 139
8. Paleoecology, Paleodemography and Health 167
9. Population Pressure, Land Tenure, and Agricultural Development in Southeastern Gha 191
10. Group-Centered Behavior and Cultural Growth: A Summary of Ecology and Superstructures 219
11. Ethnocultural Development in External and Internal Isolates 227
12. Social Evolution, Population, and Production 235
13. Ecosystem Analogies in Cultural Ecology 273
14. Organizational Evolution from Mating Pairs to Trading Nations: Spontaneous and Competitive Striving with Interacting Individuals All Regulating Each Other 305
15. Biographical Notes 337
16. Index of Names 341
17. Index of Subjects 347