The Origin And Evolution Of Cultures
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The Origin and Evolution of Cultures
Author | : Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2005-01-20 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780195165241 |
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The Origin and Evolution of Cultures presents articles based on two notions. That culture is crucial for understanding human behaviour; and that culture is part of biology. Interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science.
The Origin and Evolution of Cultures
Author | : Los Angeles Robert Boyd Professor of Anthropology University of California,Davis Peter J. Richerson Professor of Environmental Science and Policy University of California |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2004-12-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0198040083 |
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Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes, and values heavily influence our behavior. Secondly, culture is part of biology: the capacity to acquire and transmit culture is a derived component of human psychology, and the contents of culture are deeply intertwined with our biology. Culture then is a pool of information, stored in the brains of the population that gets transmitted from one brain to another by social learning processes. Therefore, culture can account for both our outstanding ecological success as well as the maladaptations that characterize much of human behavior. The interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science.
Evolution of Culture
Author | : Robin Dunbar |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2019-07-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781474467889 |
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This book explores the ways in which contemporary evolutionary thinking might inform the study of the peculiarly human phenomenon of symbolic culture, including language, ritual, religion, religion and art. It draws together contributions from biologists, linguists, anthropologists and archaeologists in order to establish common ground where collaboration and interaction will be especially productive and challenging in the study of those fundamental aspects of our biology that makes us human.* Multidisciplinary* An evolutionary approach to culture
The Origin of Man and His Culture
Author | : Stephen Fuchs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3426098 |
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The Origin and Evolution of Cultures
Author | : Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2005-01-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780199883127 |
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Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes, and values heavily influence our behavior. Secondly, culture is part of biology: the capacity to acquire and transmit culture is a derived component of human psychology, and the contents of culture are deeply intertwined with our biology. Culture then is a pool of information, stored in the brains of the population that gets transmitted from one brain to another by social learning processes. Therefore, culture can account for both our outstanding ecological success as well as the maladaptations that characterize much of human behavior. The interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science.
Culture and the Evolutionary Process
Author | : Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1988-06-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226069333 |
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How do biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors combine to change societies over the long run? Boyd and Richerson explore how genetic and cultural factors interact, under the influence of evolutionary forces, to produce the diversity we see in human cultures. Using methods developed by population biologists, they propose a theory of cultural evolution that is an original and fair-minded alternative to the sociobiology debate.
The Handbook of Historical Economics
Author | : Alberto Bisin,Giovanni Federico |
Publsiher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 1002 |
Release | : 2021-04-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780128162682 |
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The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage of statistics applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad readership. As new sources and applications of data in every economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new fundamental questions, this book presents an up-to-date reference on the topics at hand. Provides an historical outline of the two cliometric revolutions, highlighting the similarities and the differences between the two Surveys the issues and principal results of the "second cliometric revolution" Explores innovations in formulating hypotheses and statistical testing, relating them to wider trends in data-driven, empirical economics
The Origin of Cultures
Author | : W Penn Handwerker |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2016-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781315417721 |
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What makes a 17-year-old girl decide to wrap a bomb around her body, walk into a supermarket, and detonate it, killing herself and an 18-year old girl shopping there? In this provocative and important book, renowned anthropologist W. Penn Handwerker shows that individual choices, from the fatal to the mundane, are fundamentally questions of culture—what it is, where it comes from, and the complex ways it changes and evolves. In accessible and engaging prose, he walks readers through the process of how the human imagination produces new things, shaped by culture and experience but also constantly evolving in unpredictable ways. He shows how understanding cultural dynamics, which explain one girl’s decision to murder and another girl’s decision to shop, will help us address critical policy questions, from reducing the likelihood of terrorist attacks to responding to global epidemics and addressing climate change.