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Evolutionary Approaches to Ethnobiology

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Evolutionary Ethnobiology

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Phylogenies reconstruct species’ evolutionary relationships and phylogenetic methods provide a comparative framework when traits correlate with evolutionary relationships. This study reviews the applications of these methods in ethnobiological research, particularly ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. We discuss the advantages of phylogenetic methods for the exploration of medicinal plant diversity and cross-cultural ethnobiology. We conclude that, despite current limitations, phylogenies can be used to reveal and interpret patterns of traditional use of plants and bring together the fields of ethnobiology and pharmacology, synthesising biochemical, pharmacological and ethnopharmacological data. The evolutionary approach to ethnobiology will require further collaboration between evolutionary biologists and ethnobiologists to answer long-standing questions about the relationship of humans with the natural environment.

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The authors would like to thank Marco Pautasso, Lynsey Bunnefeld, Natalie Iwanycki and Madeleine Ernst for comments on an early draft of this manuscript. CHSL was supported by funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s 7th Framework programme (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF-328637—BiodiversityAltitude) and NR by the Carlsberg Foundation. This work was also supported by funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s 7th Framework programme FP//2007/2013 under REA grant agreement no. PITN-GA-2013-606895—MedPlant.

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  2. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK

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  3. School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6BX, UK

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Saslis-Lagoudakis, C.H., Rønsted, N., Clarke, A.C., Hawkins, J.A. (2015). Evolutionary Approaches to Ethnobiology. In: Albuquerque, U., De Medeiros, P., Casas, A. (eds) Evolutionary Ethnobiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19917-7_5

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