This book spans two million years of human evolution and explores the impact of economics on human evolution
and natural history. The theory of evolution by natural selection has always relied in part on progress in areas
of science outside of biology. By applying economic principles at the borderlines of biology, Haim Ofek shows how
some of the outstanding issues in human evolution, such as the increase in human brain size and the expansion of
the environmental niche humans occupied, can be answered. He identifies distinct economic forces at work, beginning
with the transition from the feed-as-you-go strategy of primates, through hunter-gathering and the domestication
of fire to the development of agriculture. This highly readable book will inform and intrigue general readers and
those in fields such as evolutionary biology and psychology, economics, and anthropology.