The Origin and Evolution of CulturesLos Angeles Robert Boyd Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis Peter J. Richerson Professor of Environmental Science and Policy University of California Oxford University Press, USA, 22 дек. 2004 г. - Всего страниц: 464 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. |
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... mechanisms that create this benefit necessarily come with a built - in cost . To get the benefits of social learning , humans have to be credulous , for the most part accepting the ways that they observe in their society as sensible and ...
... mechanisms that create this benefit necessarily come with a built - in cost . To get the benefits of social learning , humans have to be credulous , for the most part accepting the ways that they observe in their society as sensible and ...
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... mechanisms can perpetuate dysfunctional behavior under the right circumstances . Perhaps one reason why complex ... mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission . Evolution and Human Behavior 22 ( 3 ) : 165-196 . Heyes ...
... mechanisms can perpetuate dysfunctional behavior under the right circumstances . Perhaps one reason why complex ... mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission . Evolution and Human Behavior 22 ( 3 ) : 165-196 . Heyes ...
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... mechanisms in mammals , most animals use some form of learning to acquire behavior that is adaptive in the local habitat . Despite this fact , the great bulk of evolutionary theory assumes that organisms adapt to variable environments ...
... mechanisms in mammals , most animals use some form of learning to acquire behavior that is adaptive in the local habitat . Despite this fact , the great bulk of evolutionary theory assumes that organisms adapt to variable environments ...
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... mechanisms are quite different . Our results suggest that this distinction is also of evolutionary importance because selective social learning and cumulative culture change are possible only when there is imitation . Social enhancement ...
... mechanisms are quite different . Our results suggest that this distinction is also of evolutionary importance because selective social learning and cumulative culture change are possible only when there is imitation . Social enhancement ...
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... mechanisms that allow imitation is of key importance for understanding human evolution . APPENDIX 1 : Spatially Varying Environment , More than Two Variants , Learning Errors Consider an organism that lives in a spatially varying ...
... mechanisms that allow imitation is of key importance for understanding human evolution . APPENDIX 1 : Spatially Varying Environment , More than Two Variants , Learning Errors Consider an organism that lives in a spatially varying ...
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Climate Culture and the Evolution of Cognition | 66 |
Norms and Bounded Rationality | 83 |
ETHNIC GROUPS AND MARKERS | 99 |
The Evolution of Ethnic Markers | 103 |
GroupBeneficial Norms Can Spread Rapidly in a Structured Population | 227 |
The Evolution of Altruistic Punishment | 241 |
Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation | 251 |
ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURE HISTORY | 283 |
How Microevolutionary Processes Give Rise to History | 287 |
Are Cultural Phylogenies Possible? | 310 |
Was Agriculture Impossible during the Pleistocene but Mandatory during the Holocene? A Climate Change Hypothesis | 337 |
LINKS TO OTHER DISCIPLINES | 375 |
Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers | 118 |
HUMAN COOPERATION RECIPROCITY AND GROUP SELECTION | 133 |
The Evolution of Reciprocity in Sizable Groups | 145 |
Punishment Allows the Evolution of Cooperation or Anything Else in Sizable Groups | 166 |
Why People Punish Defectors Weak Conformist Transmission Can Stabilize Costly Enforcement of Norms in Cooperative Dilemmas | 189 |
Can GroupFunctional Behaviors Evolve by Cultural Group Selection? An Empirical Test | 204 |
Rationality Imitation and Tradition | 379 |
Simple Models of Complex Phenomena The Case of Cultural Evolution | 397 |
Memes Universal Acid or a Better Mousetrap? | 420 |
Author Index | 437 |
Subject Index | 446 |
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