Research Catalog

Title

The evolution of culture / edited by Stefan Linquist.

Publication

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Linquist, Stefan Paul

Description

xli, 495 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

International library of essays on evolutionary thought ; v.4

Uniform Title

International library of essays on evolutionary thought ; v. 4.

Subjects

• Kultur
• Evolution
• Social psychology
• Culture > Philosophy
• Social evolution
• Memetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Is a cultural ethology possible? / F.T. Cloak -- Cultural evolution / Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza -- Advances in evolutionary culture theory / William H. Durham -- Does culture evolve? / Joseph Fracchia and R.C. Lewontin -- The comparative method in anthropology / Ruth Mace and Mark Pagel -- Putting anthropology back together again : the ethnogenetic critique of cladistic theory / John H. Moore -- The pleasures and perils of Darwinizing culture (with phylogenies) / Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill and Robert M. Ross -- Memes and the exploitation of imagination / Daniel C. Dennett -- Evolution and memes : the human brain as a selective imitation device / Susan Blackmore -- The meme metaphor / Mark Jeffreys -- The trouble with memes : inference versus imitation in cultural creation / Scott Atran -- Memes revisited / Kim Sterelny -- The evolution of ethnic markers / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- On modeling cognition and culture : why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations / Joseph Henrich and Robert Boyd -- The evolution and evolvability of culture / Kim Sterelny -- Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change / Kevin N. Laland, John Odling-Smee and Marcus W. Feldman -- Rational preselection from Hamadryas to Homo sapiens : the place of decisions in adaptive process / Christopher Boehm -- The evolution of prestige : freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission / Joseph Henrich and Francisco J. Gil-White -- The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity / Dan Sperber and Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- The evolution of culture : from primate social learning to human culture / Laureano Castro and Miguel A. Toro -- Culture in animals : the case of non-human primate culture of low aggression and high affiliation / Robert M. Sapolsky -- The animal cultures debate / Kevin N. Laland and Vincent M. Janik -- How do apes ape? / Andrew Whiten ... [et al.] -- Cultural transmission : a view from chimpanzees and human infants / Michael Tomasello.

ISBN

• 9780754627616 (hbk.)
• 0754627616 (hbk.)

LCCN

2009938976

OCLC

• ocn619142755
• 619142755
• SCSB-5556907

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries