Life History Evolution: A Biological Meta-Theory for the Social Sciences

1. Life History Theory:  An Overview in Abstract
Part I: Huntington, Crosby, and Baker
2. Ellsworth Huntington's Victorian Climatic Writings3. Alfred W. Crosby: Adapting within a Matrix of Flora and Fauna4. The Historical Geography of Alan R. H. Baker: Scratching Out a Living after the Neolithic Revolution
Part II: Price, Malthus, and Landers
5. Richard Price: The Schedules of Mortality6. Thomas Robert Malthus, Stratification, and Subjugation: Closing the Commons and Opening the Factory7. Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death: John Maxwell Landers' Four Horseman Spurring Humans Faster Along the Life History Continuum
Part III: Toynbee, McNeill, and Casey
8. Arnold Joseph Toynbee: The Role of Life History in Civilization Cycling9. William H. McNeill: Epidemiological and Biogeographical Perspectives on Civilization10. James Casey: Extrapolating from Early Modern Iberia
Part IV: Murdock, Keeley, and Harris
11. George Peter Murdock: Stemming the Tide of Sterility with an Atlas of World Cultures12. Lawrence H. Keeley: Pre-State Societies in the Hobbesian Trap13. Marvin Harris: Ecological Anthropology and Cultural Materialism
Part V: Montesquieu, Mann, and Goldthorpe
14. The Baron de Montesquieu: Towards a Geography of Political Culture15. Michael Mann and Societal Aggregation: From Tribe, to Fief, to City-State, to Nation, to Empire16. John Harry Goldthorpe: Weighing the Biological Ballast Informing Class Structure and Class Mobility
Part VI: Cattell, Bowlby, and Bronfenbrenner
17. Raymond B. Cattell: Bequeathing a Dual Inheritance to Life History Theory18. Edward John Mostyn Bowlby: Reframing Parental Investment and Offspring Attachment19. Uri Bronfenbrenner: Towards an Evolutionary Ecological Systems Theory