The origin and evolution of cultures /
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Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Series: | Evolution and cognition
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Table of Contents:
- 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?