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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... requires a degree of credulity . While individuals are not passive receptacles of their culture , they cannot vet every belief and value their culture makes available , and this opens the door to the spread of " maladaptive " ideas ...
... requires a degree of credulity . While individuals are not passive receptacles of their culture , they cannot vet every belief and value their culture makes available , and this opens the door to the spread of " maladaptive " ideas ...
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... requiring culture , inhibiting the evolution of any competitors . Chapter 4 provides a different explanation for the rarity of culture , one based on recent discoveries about the nature of Pleistocene climates . Evolutionists divide ...
... requiring culture , inhibiting the evolution of any competitors . Chapter 4 provides a different explanation for the rarity of culture , one based on recent discoveries about the nature of Pleistocene climates . Evolutionists divide ...
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... require much brainpower . For the last 65 million years , the average size of mammalian brains has gradually increased . The rate of increase has jumped during the last couple of million years . Brain size increase in mammals has an ...
... require much brainpower . For the last 65 million years , the average size of mammalian brains has gradually increased . The rate of increase has jumped during the last couple of million years . Brain size increase in mammals has an ...
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... requires understanding the dynamic processes that act to change the frequency of different socially learned behaviors in a population of organisms through time . We must link models of individual learning to models of social learning to ...
... requires understanding the dynamic processes that act to change the frequency of different socially learned behaviors in a population of organisms through time . We must link models of individual learning to models of social learning to ...
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... requires a larger difference in payoffs , then it can reduce the chance of such errors , but sometimes it will have to imitate . If it is sufficiently picky , it will almost never err , but it will also almost always acquire its ...
... requires a larger difference in payoffs , then it can reduce the chance of such errors , but sometimes it will have to imitate . If it is sufficiently picky , it will almost never err , but it will also almost always acquire its ...
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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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