Niche Construction Theory and Ethnobiology

ULYSSES PAULINO DE ALBUQUERQUE; WASHINGTON SOARES FERREIRA JÚNIOR; FLÁVIA ROSA SANTORO; WENDY MARISOL TORRES AVILEZ; JOSÉ RIBAMAR SOUSA JÚNIOR

Evolutionaty Ethnobiology

Springer International Publishing

Año: 2019; p. 73 - 87

In this chapter, we explain how NCT can provide scenarios to test the ability of evolutionary and ecological hypotheses to describe the relationships between humans and nature (the interest of ethnobiology) and detail opportunities for further research. We also briefly argue why we believe NCT offers insights that can be useful for approaches in evolutionary ethnobiology. To illustrate how NCT can be an integrating concept in ethnobiology, we focus on classical examples available in the literature on NCT and gene-culture coevolution.