04257nam 22006973u 450 991045672550332120210117174022.01-315-41860-61-315-41859-21-315-41861-41-59874-759-2(CKB)2520000000009145(EBL)677751(OCoLC)711747349(SSID)ssj0000484258(PQKBManifestationID)11344103(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484258(PQKBWorkID)10594268(PQKB)10491429(MiAaPQ)EBC677751(MiAaPQ)EBC4693200(EXLCZ)99252000000000914520141006d2010|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Evolution of Cultural Diversity[electronic resource] A PHYLOGENETIC APPROACHWalnut Creek Left Coast Press20101 online resource (303 p.)UNIV COL LONDON INST ARCH PUBDescription based upon print version of record.1-59874-213-2 About the Contributers; Contents; 1. Introduction: A Phylogenetic Approach to the Evolution of Cultural Diversity / Ruth Mace; Part I; 2. Introduction to Part I: How Tree-like Is Cultural Evolution? / Clare J Holden and Stephen Shennan; 3. Testing Population Dispersal Hypotheses: Pacific Settlement, Phylogenetic Trees and Austronesian Languages / Simon J Greenhill and Russell D Gray; 4. Comparison of Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Bantu Language Trees / Clare J Holden, Andrew Meade and Mark Pagel5. Untangling our Past: Languages, Trees, Splits and Networks / David Bryant, Flavia Fillmon and Russell D Gray6. Cultural Phylogenetic Hypotheses in Archaeology: Some Fundamental Issues / Michael J O''Brien and R Lee Lyman; 7. Phylogenetic versus Ethnogenesis in Turkmen Cultural Evolution / Mark Collard and Jamshid Tehrani; 8. Investing Processes of Cultural Evolution on the North Coast of New Guinea with Multivariate and Cladistic Analyses / Stephen Shennan and Mark Collard; 9. Cultural Transmssion in Indigenous California / Peter Jordan and Stephen Shennan; Part II10. Introduction to Part II: On the Use of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods to Test Co-Evolutionary Hypotheses across Cultures / Ruth Mace11. The Evolution of Human Sex Ratio at Birth: A Bio-Cultural Analysis / Ruth Mace and Fiona Jordan; 12. ''The Cow is the Enemy of Matriliny'': Using Phylogenetic Methods to Investigate Cultural Evolution in Africa / Clare J Holden and Ruth Mace; 13. Bayesian Estimation of Correlated Evolution Across Cultures: A Case Study of Marriage Systems and Wealth Transfer at Marriage / Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade; Bibliography; IndexVirtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Thousands of distinct cultural groups exist: about 6,000 languages are spoken today, and it is thought that a far greater number of languages existed in the past but became extinct. Using a Darwinian approach, this book seeks to explain this rich cultural variation. There are a number of theoretical reasons to believe that cultural diversification might be tree-like, that is phylogenetic: material and non-material culture is cleaUNIV COL LONDON INST ARCH PUBPhylogeny -- CongressesSocial evolution -- CongressesAnthropologyHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCSocial & Cultural AnthropologyHILCCElectronic books.Phylogeny -- Congresses.Social evolution -- Congresses.AnthropologySocial SciencesSocial & Cultural Anthropology303.4Mace Ruth729366Holden Clare J908923Shennan Stephen248839AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910456725503321The Evolution of Cultural Diversity2032862UNINA