Research Catalog

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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Additional Authors

• Levinson, Stephen C.
• Jaisson, Pierre.
• Fyssen Foundation.

Description

xvii, 296 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Fyssen Foundation series

Uniform Title

Fyssen Foundation symposium.

Subjects

• Biological Evolution
• Sociobiology
• Cognitive neuroscience > Congresses
• Cognition
• Culture > Congresses
• Cultural Evolution
• Social evolution > Congresses
• Brain > Evolution > Congresses
• Human evolution > Congresses

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