The origin and evolution of cultures /
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 cul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Evolution and cognition.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: The evolution of social learning ; Social learning as an adaptation
- Why does culture increase human adaptability?
- Why culture is common, but cultural evolution is rare
- Climate, culture, and the evolution of cognition
- Norms and bounded rationality
- Part 2: Ethnic groups and markers ; The evolution of ethnic markers
- Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers / with Richard McElreath
- Part 3: Human cooperation, reciprocity, and group selection ; The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups
- Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups
- Why people punish defectors : weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas / with Joseph Henrich
- Can group-functional behaviors evolve by cultural group selection? an empirical test / with Joseph Soltis
- Group-beneficial norms can spread rapidly in a structured population
- The evolution of altruistic punishment / with Herbert Gintis and Samuel Bowles
- Cultural evolution of human cooperation / with Joseph Henrich
- Part 4: Archaeology and culture history ; How microevolutionary processes give rise to history
- Are cultural phylogenies possible? / with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and William H. Durham
- Was agriculture impossible during the Pleistocene but mandatory during the Holocene? a climate change hypothesis / with Robert L. Bettinger
- Part 5: Links to other disciplines
- Rationality, imitation, and tradition
- Simple models of complex phenomena : the case of cultural evolution
- Memes : universal acid or a better mousetrap?


