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Evolution and culture : a Fyssen Foundation symposium
- Title
- Evolution and culture : a Fyssen Foundation symposium / edited by Stephen C. Levinson and Pierre Jaisson.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- xvii, 296 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Fyssen Foundation series
- Uniform Title
- Fyssen Foundation symposium.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A Bradford book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface : it was not there in the Big Bang, but ... / Pierre Jaisson -- 1. Introduction : the evolution of culture in a microcosm / Stephen C. Levinson -- 2. Quantum leaps in evolution / Claude Combes -- 3. The emergence of culture in the context of Hominin evolutionary patterns / Robert A. Foley -- 4. Interactions of culture and natural selection among Pleistocene hunters / Christopher Boehm -- 5. Solving the puzzle of human cooperation / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- 6. From typo to thinko : when evolution graduated to semantic norms / Daniel C. Dennett -- 7. Conceptual tools for a naturalistic approach to cultural evolution / Dan Sperber -- 8. Brains, cognition, and the evolution of culture / R. I. M. Dunbar -- 9. The evolution of culture from a neurobiological perspective / Wolf Singer -- 10. Uniquely human cognition is a product of human culture / Michael Tomasello -- 11. Moral ingredients : how we evolved the capacity to do the right thing / Marc D. Hauser -- 12. The cultural and evolutionary history of the real numbers / C. R. Gallistel, Rochel Gelman and Sara Cordes -- 13. Why animals do not have culture / David Premack and Marc D. Hauser.
- ISBN
- 0262122782 (alk. paper)
- 0262621975 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005043348
- OCLC
- ocm58043127
- SCSB-5221122
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries