Culture and the Evolutionary Process

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University of Chicago Press, 15 июн. 1988 г. - Всего страниц: 331
How do biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors combine to change societies over the long run? Boyd and Richerson explore how genetic and cultural factors interact, under the influence of evolutionary forces, to produce the diversity we see in human cultures. Using methods developed by population biologists, they propose a theory of cultural evolution that is an original and fair-minded alternative to the sociobiology debate.

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1 Overview
1
2 Some Methodological Preliminaries
19
3 The Cultural Inheritance System
32
4 Guided Variation and the Evolution of Cultural Inheritance
81
5 Biased Transmission and the Sociobiology Debate
132
Conflicts between Cultural and Genetic Evolution
172
7 Frequencydependent Bias and the Evolution of Cooperation
204
8 Indirect Bias and the Evolution of Symbolic Traits
241
9 Conclusion
280
References and Author Index
301
Subject Index
317
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Robert Boyd is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prolific authors and editors, they coauthored Culture and the Evolutionary Process, published by the University of Chicago Press. Peter J. Richerson is professor of environmental science at the University of California, Davis.

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