ISBN:
0226520439
,
0226520447
,
9780226520438
,
9780226520445
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 264 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cultural Evolution : How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences
DDC:
306.01
Keywords:
Social evolution
;
Culture
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture. Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, Alex Mesoudi shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. This cross-disciplinary volume focuses
Description / Table of Contents:
A cultural speciesCultural evolution -- Cultural microevolution -- Cultural macroevolution i: archaeology and anthropology -- Cultural macroevolution ii: language and history -- Evolutionary experiments: cultural evolution in the lab -- Evolutionary ethnography: cultural evolution in the field -- Evolutionary economics : cultural evolution in the marketplace -- Culture in nonhuman species -- Toward an evolutionary synthesis for the social sciences.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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