ForewordPreface1. Agriculture, Evolution, and Paradigms Agriculture and the Paradigm of Consciousness Cultural Evolution Environmental Determinism and Orthogenesis Cultural Ecology Adaptation, Equilibrium and Systems Theory Equilibrium Lost2. Darwinism and Culture Natural Selection, Fitness, and Adaptation The Unit and Level of Selection Natural Selection and Cultural Change Variation and Evolution Culture and Evolution Cultural Selectionism3. The Naturalness of the Human-Plant Relationship Biology and Intent Animal-Plant Relationships Coevolution and Dispersal Weeds and Mimicry Humans and Domestication4. The Evolution of Domestication Introduction Utilization and Domestication A Taxonomy for Domestication from an Evolutionary Perspective Complexity and Stability Domestication and Sedentism Domestication and Changing Selective Pressures5. Feeding Behavior and Change in Diet Introduction The General Model The Graphic Model Valuation and Domestication Agricultural Domestication and Diet Timing and a Test6. Instability, Cultural Fecundity, and Dispersals Domestication and Demography Agricultural Origins Dispersals of Agricultural Systems ImplicationsReferencesIndex