Culture Evolves
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Culture Evolves
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Author : Andrew Whiten
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012
Culture Evolves written by Andrew Whiten and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Psychology categories.
Culture shapes vast swathes of our lives and has allowed the human species to dominate the planet in an evolutionarily unique way. This book is unique in focusing on the evolutionary continuities in culture, providing an interdisciplinary exploration of culture, written by leading authorities from the biological and cognitive sciences.
The Origin And Evolution Of Cultures
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Author : Robert Boyd
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-20
The Origin And Evolution Of Cultures written by Robert Boyd and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-20 with Psychology categories.
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
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Author : Los Angeles Robert Boyd Professor of Anthropology University of California
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2004-12-22
The Origin And Evolution Of Cultures written by Los Angeles Robert Boyd Professor of Anthropology University of California and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-22 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Evolution Of Culture
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Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Evolution Of Culture written by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
The contributors call into question the gulf separating the natural from the cultural sciences as they argue that human culture evolved through a standard series of processes of natural and sexual selection.
Evolution And Culture
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Author : Marshall David Sahlins
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1960
Evolution And Culture written by Marshall David Sahlins and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Philosophy categories.
A unified interpretation of the evolution of species, humanity, and society
Culture Evolves
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Author : Andrew Whiten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Culture Evolves written by Andrew Whiten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Social evolution categories.
The Evolution Of Culture
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Author : Leslie A White
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-16
The Evolution Of Culture written by Leslie A White and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Social Science categories.
One of the major works of twentieth-century anthropological theory, written by one of the discipline’s most important, complex, and controversial figures, has not been in print for several years. Now Evolution of Culture is again available in paperback, allowing today’s generation of anthropologists new access to Leslie White’s crucial contribution to the theory of cultural evolution. A new, substantial introduction by Robert Carneiro and Burton J. Brown assess White’s historical importance and continuing influence in the discipline. White is credited with reintroducing evolution in a way that had a profound impact on our understanding of the relationship between technology, ecology, and culture in the development of civilizations. A materialist, he was particularly concerned with societies’ ability to harness energy as an indicator of progress, and his empirical analysis of this equation covers a vast historical span. Fearlessly tackling the most fundamental questions of culture and society during the cold war, White was frequently a lightning rod both inside and outside the academy. His book will provoke equally potent debates today, and is a key component of any course or reading list in anthropological or archaeological theory and cultural ecology.
Cultural Evolution
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Author : Alex Mesoudi
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-07-30
Cultural Evolution written by Alex Mesoudi and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-30 with Social Science categories.
Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture. Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, Alex Mesoudi shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. This cross-disciplinary volume focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically—from theoretical modeling to lab experiments, archaeological fieldwork to ethnographic studies—and shows how apparently disparate methods can complement one another to the mutual benefit of the various social science disciplines. Along the way, the book reveals how new insights arise from looking at culture from an evolutionary angle. Cultural Evolution provides a thought-provoking argument that Darwinian evolutionary theory can both unify different branches of inquiry and enhance understanding of human behavior.
Cultural Vision
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Author : J. Knutsen
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2003-11
Cultural Vision written by J. Knutsen and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11 with Science categories.
For hundreds of millennia, thousands of tribal cultures have thrived throughout the planet, each possessing a unique Vision, derived from thousands of years of evolution. With their deep ties to the world around them they experienced a communion with life, which offered a spiritual sense of overwhelming interconnectedness with the land, the plants, the animals, and each other. But one culture evolved to dominate all others, and linear history was created. Now a new reality has been built over the former surface of the planet, not only altering the biosphere, but also what is available for us to interact with and relate to. We struggle with the meaningless daily rote duties of our jobs. We live sequestered lives in houses and apartments, cut off from our neighbors, woefully uninformed in a sea of trivial information. Unprecedented resource extraction and energy consumption is heralding the greatest mass extinction of plant and animal life, the likes of which has not been seen in the last 65 million years. Cultural Vision exposes the ancient roots of these challenges as it reveals a new direction for the future of humanity based upon cooperation, true human values, and cultural diversity.
Race Culture And Evolution
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Author : George W. Stocking
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1982-04-15
Race Culture And Evolution written by George W. Stocking and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-04-15 with Social Science categories.
"We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics—race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton