The evolution of culture
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 acade...
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate
cop. 2010
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| Colección: | International library of essays on evolutionary thought ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Part I Theoretical Background: Is a cultural ethology possible?; Cultural evolution; Advances in evolutionary culture theory; Does culture evolve?.; Part II The Phylogenetic Approach to Culture: The comparative method in anthropology; Putting anthropology back together again: the ethnogenic critique of cladistic theory; The pleasures and perils of Darwinizing culture (with phylogenies).; Part III Memetics: Memes and the exploitation of imagination; Evolution and memes: the human brain as a selective imitation device; The meme metaphor; The trouble with memes: inference versus imitation in cultural creation; Memes revisited.; Part IV Dual Inheritance Theory and Niche Construction: The evolution of ethnic markers; On modeling cognition and culture: why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations; The evolution and evolvability of culture; Niche construction, biological evolution and cultural change.; Part V Psychological Mechanisms: Rational preselection from hamadryas to homo sapiens: the place of decisions in adaptive process; The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission; The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity; The evolution of culture: from primate social learning to human culture.; Part VI Culture in Non-Human Animals: Culture in animals: the case of a non-human primate culture of low aggression and high affiliation; The animal cultures debate; How do apes ape?; Cultural transmission: a view from chimpanzees and human infants; Name index.
