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The origin and evolution of cultures /

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 cul...

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Main Author: Boyd, Robert, 1948-
Other Authors: Richerson, Peter J., McElreath, Richard, 1973-, Henrich, Joseph Patrick, Soltis, Joseph Mark, 1962-, Gintis, Herbert, Bowles, Samuel, Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, Durham, William H., Bettinger, Robert L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Social evolution.
Culture > Origin.
Human evolution.
Sociobiology.
Cultural Evolution
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781423756859
1423756851
9781280560552
128056055X
9786610560554
6610560552
9780195347449
0195347447
9781433700583
1433700581
9780199883127
0199883122
0195165241
9780195165241
019518145X
9780195181456
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: The evolution of social learning ; Social learning as an adaptation
  • Why does culture increase human adaptability?
  • Why culture is common, but cultural evolution is rare
  • Climate, culture, and the evolution of cognition
  • Norms and bounded rationality
  • Part 2: Ethnic groups and markers ; The evolution of ethnic markers
  • Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers / with Richard McElreath
  • Part 3: Human cooperation, reciprocity, and group selection ; The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups
  • Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups
  • Why people punish defectors : weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas / with Joseph Henrich
  • Can group-functional behaviors evolve by cultural group selection? an empirical test / with Joseph Soltis
  • Group-beneficial norms can spread rapidly in a structured population
  • The evolution of altruistic punishment / with Herbert Gintis and Samuel Bowles
  • Cultural evolution of human cooperation / with Joseph Henrich
  • Part 4: Archaeology and culture history ; How microevolutionary processes give rise to history
  • Are cultural phylogenies possible? / with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and William H. Durham
  • Was agriculture impossible during the Pleistocene but mandatory during the Holocene? a climate change hypothesis / with Robert L. Bettinger
  • Part 5: Links to other disciplines
  • Rationality, imitation, and tradition
  • Simple models of complex phenomena : the case of cultural evolution
  • Memes : universal acid or a better mousetrap?

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