03840nam 2200769Ia 450 991045828430332120200520144314.00-262-29391-91-282-69469-397866126946910-262-25910-99786612694691(CKB)2560000000007135(EBL)3339092(SSID)ssj0000339052(PQKBManifestationID)11266347(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339052(PQKBWorkID)10298808(PQKB)10646463(StDuBDS)EDZ0000130688(MiAaPQ)EBC3339092(OCoLC)505263827(OCoLC)646857119(OCoLC)663077470(OCoLC)764528640(OCoLC)816568706(OCoLC)960205801(OCoLC)961529967(OCoLC)962687931(OCoLC)988410311(OCoLC)992038382(OCoLC)1055379942(OCoLC)1066399158(OCoLC)1081215628(OCoLC-P)505263827(MaCbMITP)8102(Au-PeEL)EBL3339092(CaPaEBR)ebr10347249(CaONFJC)MIL269469(OCoLC)743201402(EXLCZ)99256000000000713520090305d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInnovation in cultural systems[electronic resource] contributions from evolutionary anthropology /edited by Michael J. O'Brien and Stephen J. ShennanCambridge, Mass. ;London MIT Press20091 online resource (297 p.)Vienna series in theoretical biologyDescription based upon print version of record.0-262-01333-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Series Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; I Introduction; 1 Issues in Anthropological Studies of Innovation; II The Biological Substrate; 2 Innovation and Invention from a Logical Point of View; 3 Comparative Perspectives on Human Innovation; 4 Organismal Innovation; 5 Innovation, Replicative Behavior, and Evolvability; 6 Innovation from EvoDevo to Human Culture; III Cultural Inheritance; 7 The Evolution of Innovation-Enhancing Institutions; 8 Fashion versus Reason in the Creative Industries; 9 Demography and Variation in the Accumulation of Culturally Inherited Skills10 Cultural Traditions and the Evolutionary Advantages of Noninnovation11 The Experimental Study of Cultural Innovation; 12 Social Learning, Economic Inequality, and Innovation Diffusion; IV Patterns in the Anthropological Record; 13 Technological Innovations and Developmental Trajectories; 14 Can Archaeologists Study Processes of Invention?; 15 War, Women, and Religion; Contributors; IndexHere, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.Vienna series in theoretical biology.Physical anthropologyHuman evolutionSocial evolutionHuman beingsOriginTechnological innovationsElectronic books.Physical anthropology.Human evolution.Social evolution.Human beingsOrigin.Technological innovations.599.9O'Brien Michael J(Michael John),1950-181861Shennan Stephen248839MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458284303321Innovation in cultural systems2441844UNINA