Cultural evolution /

"In this book, Kate Distin proposes a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the origin and development of human culture. Distin introduces the concept that humans share information not only in natural languages, which are spoken or signed, but also in artefactu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Distin, Kate, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Human evolution.
Social evolution.
Language and languages > Origin.
Human beings > Origin.
Cultural Evolution
Êtres humains > Évolution.
Évolution sociale.
Langage et langues > Origines.
Êtres humains > Origines.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Human beings > Origin
Human evolution
Language and languages > Origin
Social evolution
Soziale Evolution
Kulturelle Entwicklung
Sprachentwicklung
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "Small consequences of one general law"
  • pt. 1. The inheritance of cultural information. What is information? How is information inherited?
  • pt. 2. The inheritance of cultural information : natural language. Natural language and culture : the biological building blocks ; How did natural language evolve? ; Language, thought, and culture
  • pt. 3. The inheritance of cultural information : artefactual language. How did artefactual language evolve? ; Artefactual language, representation and culture ; Money : an artefactual language ; Money : the explanatory power of artefactual languages
  • pt. 4. The receivers of cultural information. How does human diversity affect cultural evolution?
  • pt. 5. The expression of cultural information. Aspects of the cultural ecology ; Patterns of cultural taxonomy ; Conclusion : a representational understanding of cultural evolution
  • Appendix : What about mimetics?

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