Animal Culture
Animal Kingdom
animal social learning
Biased Transmission
Bottle Nose Dolphins
Brain Science
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Cognitive Capital
Cognitive Evolution
Conformist Transmission
construction
cultural
Cultural Evolutionary Theories
Cultural Phylogenies
cultural transmission
Cumulative Cultural Evolution
dual
Dual Inheritance
dual inheritance model
Dual Inheritance Theory
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eq_isMigrated=2
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eq_society-politics
evolutionary anthropology
Galton's Problem
Gene Culture Coevolution
Hamadryas Baboons
Homo Sapiens
horizontal
Horizontal Transmission
inheritance
learning
memetic theory
MIT Press
niche
niche construction theory
phylogenetic analysis of culture
replica
Sea Water
social
Sponges
Stimulus Enhancement
transmission
Van Schaik
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780754627616
- Weight: 1160g
- Dimensions: 169 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Recent years have seen a transformation in thinking about the nature of culture. Rather than viewing culture in opposition to biology, a growing number of researchers now regard culture as subject to evolutionary processes. Recent developments in this field have shifted some of the traditional academic fault lines. Alliances are forming between researchers trained in anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology and philosophy. Meanwhile, several distinct schools of thought have appeared which differ in their vision of what an evolutionary approach to culture should look like. This volume contains some of the most influential publications on these subjects from the past few decades. A theoretical background chapter and critical introduction identify the core issues at stake in the new study of cultural evolution. These chapters are followed by sections on each of the four dominant approaches: the phylogenetic approach, memetics, dual inheritance theory and niche construction. Following these are two chapters on closely related topics: the psychological mechanisms of culture and the existence of culture in non-human animals. Overall, this volume provides an up to date overview of some of the most exciting trends in contemporary evolutionary thought.
Stefan Linquist, University of Guelph, Canada
