Cultural Evolution
How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences
Cultural Evolution
How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences
280 pages | 11 line drawings, 2 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2011
Anthropology: Physical Anthropology
Political Science: Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Psychology: Social Psychology
Reviews
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 A Cultural Species
2 Cultural Evolution
3 Cultural Microevolution
4 Cultural Macroevolution I: Archaeology and Anthropology
5 Cultural Macroevolution II: Language and History
6 Evolutionary Experiments: Cultural Evolution in the Lab
7 Evolutionary Ethnography: Cultural Evolution in the Field
8 Evolutionary Economics: Cultural Evolution in the Marketplace
9 Culture in Nonhuman Species
10 Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis for the Social Sciences
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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