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The origin and evolution of cultures

Robert Boyd Ph. D. Peter J Richerson

Oxford ; Oxford University Press New York 2005

Localização: EACH - Esc. Artes, Ciências e Humanidades    (306 B789o e.2 ) e outros locais(Acessar)

  • Título:
    The origin and evolution of cultures
  • Autor: Robert Boyd Ph. D.
  • Peter J Richerson
  • Assuntos: Social evolution; Culture -- Origin; Human evolution; Sociobiology; SOCIOBIOLOGIA; EVOLUÇÃO HUMANA; BIOMATEMÁTICA (EVOLUÇÃO); CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS; ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURAL E SOCIAL; CULTURA; EVOLUÇÃO SOCIAL
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  • Descrição: 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?
  • Títulos relacionados: Série:Evolution and cognition
  • Editor: Oxford ; Oxford University Press New York
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2005
  • Formato: viii, 456 p ill 24 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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