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List of works by Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior

A theoretical review on the origin of medicinal practices in humans: echoes from evolution

Adaptive memory and evolution of the human naturalistic mind: Insights from the use of medicinal plants

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Addressing Social-Ecological Systems across Temporal and Spatial Scales: a Conceptual Synthesis for Ethnobiology

journal article from 'Human Ecology' published in 2020

Alternative Views of Folk Classification

An Evolutionary Perspective on the Use of Hallucinogens

article published in 2015

Are ethnopharmacological surveys useful for the discovery and development of drugs from medicinal plants?

article

Biological and Cultural Bases of the Use of Medicinal and Food Plants

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Biological and Evolutionary Bases of Human Perception of the Natural Environment

Does Forest Scarcity Affect the Collection and Use of Firewood by Rural Communities? A Case Study in the Atlantic Forest of Northeastern Brazil

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Does plant species richness guarantee the resilience of local medical systems? A perspective from utilitarian redundancy

scientific article

Editorial: Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into ecology, evolution, and conservation

scientific article published in 2022

Ethnopharmacological study of Stryphnodendron rotundifolium in two communities in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil

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Evolutionary ethnobiology and cultural evolution: opportunities for research and dialog.

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Exotic species as models to understand biocultural adaptation: Challenges to mainstream views of human-nature relations.

scientific article

Fungi

article by Ulysses P. Albuquerque

How and Why Should People Classify Natural Resources?

Human mnesic performance in a survival scenario: the application of the adaptive memory concept in ethnobiology

scientific article published on 14 July 2017

Humans as niche constructors: Revisiting the concept of chronic anthropogenic disturbances in ecology

Hypothesis Testing in Ethnobotany: 30 years After Phillips & Gentry’s Seminal Work

scientific article published in 2023

Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into academic research at local and global scales

scientific article published in 2021

Landscapes preferences in the human species: insights for ethnobiology from evolutionary psychology

Local ecological knowledge and resilience of ethnomedical systems in a changing world – South American perspectives

scientific article published in 2022

Medicinal Plant Knowledge Richness and Sharing in Northeastern Brazil

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Medicinal Plants

article from 2016

Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness

scientific article published on 25 October 2021

Niche Construction Theory and Ethnobiology

article published in 2015

Patterns of Biological and Utilitarian Diversity of Plants Through a Dry Forest Precipitation Gradient

scientific article published in 2023

Plant stem bark extractivism in the northeast semiarid region of Brazil: a new aport to utilitarian redundancy model

scientific article published on 26 January 2012

Reflections on the use of hypotheses in ethnobotany: A response to Leonti et al. (2020)

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

Religiosity/Spirituality Matters on Plant-Based Local Medical System

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Religiousness/spirituality do not necessarily matter: Effect on risk perception and adaptive strategies in the semi-arid region of NE Brazil

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Resilience and Adaptation in Social-Ecological Systems

Resilience and adaptation in the use of medicinal plants with suspected anti-inflammatory activity in the Brazilian Northeast

scientific article published on 21 September 2011

Risk Perception

article published in 2016

Social-Ecological Theory of Maximization: Basic Concepts and Two Initial Models

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

Ten important questions/issues for ethnobotanical research

scientific article published in 2019

Testing an Ethnobiological Evolutionary Hypothesis on Plant-Based Remedies to Treat Malaria in Africa

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The Influence of the Environment on Natural Resource Use: Evidence of Apparency

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The Influence of the Evolutionary Past on the Mind: An Analysis of the Preference for Landscapes in the Human Species

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

The role of local disease perception in the selection of medicinal plants: A study of the structure of local medical systems.

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

The use of different indicators for interpreting the local knowledge loss on medical plants

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Urbanization, Modernization, and Nature Knowledge

article

Use and importance of quina (Cinchona spp.) and ipeca (Carapichea ipecacuanha (Brot.) L. Andersson): Plants for medicinal use from the 16th century to the present

article

Utilitarian Redundancy: Conceptualization and Potential Applications in Ethnobiological Research

Utilitarian redundancy in local medical systems - theoretical and methodological contributions

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

What Do We Study in Evolutionary Ethnobiology? Defining the Theoretical Basis for a Research Program

article

What drives the use of natural products for medicinal purposes in the context of cultural pluralism?

Why do people use exotic plants in their local medical systems? A systematic review based on Brazilian local communities.

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

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