Culture and the evolutionary process
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. -- From publisher's description
Print Book, English, 1988, ©1985
Pbk. ed. 1988 View all formats and editions
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988, ©1985
viii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780226069333, 0226069338
20944271
Overview
Some methodological preliminaries
The cultural inheritance system
Guided variation and the evolution of cultural inheritance
Biased transmission and the sociobiology debate
The natural selection of cultural variations: conflicts between cultural and genetic evolution
Frequency-dependent bias and the evolution of cooperation
Indirect bias and the evolution of symbolic traits
Includes indexes