ISBN:
9780521769013
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9780521189712
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 272 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Evolution : By Means of Natural and Artefactual Languages
DDC:
303.4
Keywords:
Language and languages Origin
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Human beings Origin
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Social evolution
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Human evolution
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Human evolution..
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Social evolution..
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Language and languages ; Origin..
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Human beings ; Origin
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Expounds a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the development of human culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Cultural Evolution; 1 Introduction: "Small Consequences of One General Law"; Towards a Better Understanding of Culture; Part I The Inheritance of Cultural Information; 2 What Is Information?; 3 How Is Information Inherited?; Part II The Inheritance of Cultural Information: Natural Language; 4 Natural Language and Culture: The Biological Building Blocks; 5 How Did Natural Language Evolve?; 6 Language, Thought and Culture; Part III The Inheritance of Cultural Information: Artefactual Language; 7 How Did Artefactual Language Evolve?
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Artefactual Language, Representation and Culture9 Money: An Artefactual Language; 10 Money: The Explanatory Power of Artefactual Languages; Part IV The Receivers of Cultural Information; 11 How Does Human Diversity Affect Cultural Evolution?; Part V The Expression of Cultural Information; 12 Aspects of the Cultural Ecology; 13 Patterns of Cultural Taxonomy; 14 Conclusion: A Representational Understanding of Cultural Evolution; Appendix: What about Memetics?; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index
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