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Science 17 May 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5571, p. 1243
DOI: 10.1126/science.1069831
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HUMAN EVOLUTION:
Should It Be Homo economicus?

A review by Alan Grafen

Second Nature Economic Origins of Human Evolution
Haim Ofek
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001. 264 pp. $74.95, £45. ISBN 0-521-62399-5. Paper, $27.95, £17.95. ISBN 0-521-62534-3.

Ofek argues that economic factors played critical (and usually overlooked) roles in determining the evolutionary path that led to modern humans.
The author is at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. E-mail: alan.grafen{at}st-johns.oxford.ac.uk

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