Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. This title presents theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology.

This is the seventh volume in a series designed to publish theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems.

Preface, Lee Freese
the last ancestor - an ecological network model on the origins of human sociality, Alexandra Maryanski
the evolution of macrosociety - why are large societies rare?, Richard Machalek
separation versus unification in sociological human ecology, William R. Catton Jr
the natural ecology of human ecology, Jeffrey S. Wicken
between the atom and the void - hierarchy in human ecology, Gerald L. Young
from entropy to economy - a thorny path, C. Dyke
the ethical foundations of sustainable economic development, R. Kerry Turner and David W. Pearce
the energy consumption turnaround and socioeconomic well-being in industrial societies in the 1980s, Marvin E. Olsen.