Screen LibraryThe origin and evolution of cultures
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Evolution and cognition |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 456 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
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0195165241 (alk. paper) 019518145X (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | G05 |
| CLC: | G05 |
| Call Number: | G05/B789 |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1: The evolution of social learning -- Social learning and 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 -- 2: Ethnic groups and markers -- The evolution of ethnic markers -- Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers / with Richard McElreath -- 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 defector: 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, Samuel Bowles -- Cultural evolution of human cooperation / with Joseph Henrich -- 4: Archaeology and culture history -- How microevolutionary processes give rise to history -- Are cultural phylogenies possible? / with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, William H. Durham -- Was agriculture impossible during the Pleistocene but mandatory during the Holocene? a climate change hypothesis / with Robert L. Bettinger -- 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? |