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Waste under socialism and after: a case-study from Almaty. (2008)
Book Chapter
Alexander, C. (2008). Waste under socialism and after: a case-study from Almaty. In H. West, & P. Raman (Eds.), Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation (148-168). Berghahn Books

Factors affecting the stability of foraging traditions in fishes. (2008)
Journal Article
Stanley, E., Kendal, R., Kendal, J., Grounds, S., & Laland, K. (2008). Factors affecting the stability of foraging traditions in fishes. Animal Behaviour, 75, 565-572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.014

There is considerable laboratory-based evidence that social learning plays a role in the behaviour of many animals, including fishes. However, a weakness of such studies in fishes, is that in virtually all to-date, the behaviour exhibited could be le... Read More about Factors affecting the stability of foraging traditions in fishes..

What can ethnography tell us about human social evolution? (2008)
Book Chapter
Layton, R. (2008). What can ethnography tell us about human social evolution?. In N. Allen, H. Callan, R. Dunbar, & W. James (Eds.), Early human kinship: from sex to social reproduction (113-127). (1). Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444302714.ch6

critically reviews methods for reconstructing past behaviour from ethnography, compares chimpanzee and hunter-gatherer social behaviour, and rejects some hypotheses proposed by other authors in the same volume.

Fieldwork as research process and community engagement (2008)
Book Chapter
Panter-Brick, C., & Eggerman, M. (2010). Fieldwork as research process and community engagement. In J. MacClancy, & A. Fuentes (Eds.), Centralizing fieldwork : critical perspectives from primatology, biological and social anthropology. Berghahn Journals

Lessons from animal teaching. (2008)
Journal Article
Hoppitt, W., Brown, G., Kendal, R., Rendell, L., Thornton, A., Webster, M., & Laland, K. (2008). Lessons from animal teaching. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23, 486-493

Environments, adaptation and evolutionary medicine: should we be eating a ‘Stone Age’ diet? (2008)
Book Chapter
Elton, E. (2008). Environments, adaptation and evolutionary medicine: should we be eating a ‘Stone Age’ diet?. In P. O’Higgins, & S. Elton (Eds.), Medicine and evolution: current applications, future prospects (9-34). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420051377.ch2

A central tenet of evolutionary or Darwinian medicine is that many chronic diseases and degenerative conditions evident in modern Western populations have arisen because of a mismatch between ‘Stone Age’ genes and recently-adopted lifestyles [1 – 5].... Read More about Environments, adaptation and evolutionary medicine: should we be eating a ‘Stone Age’ diet?.