LEADER 04855nam 22007335 450 001 9910483987303321 005 20200919125251.0 010 $a4-431-55363-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-4-431-55363-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000404197 035 $a(EBL)2095937 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001501569 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11968029 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001501569 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11440917 035 $a(PQKB)11748293 035 $a(DE-He213)978-4-431-55363-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2095937 035 $a(iGPub)SPNA0040891 035 $a(PPN)185488129 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000404197 100 $a20150430d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLearning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic /$fedited by Alex Mesoudi, Kenichi Aoki 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aTokyo :$cSpringer Japan :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aReplacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series,$x2365-063X 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a4-431-55362-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Experimental Studies of Cumulative Culture in Modern Humans: What are the Requirements of the Ratchet -- Factors Limiting the Number of Independent Cultural Traits That Can Be Maintained in a Population -- Inferring Learning Strategies from Cultural Frequency Data -- The Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans and the Diversity in Cultural Transition Patterns: a Theoretical Perspective -- Simulating Geographical Variation in Material Culture: Were Early Modern Humans in Europe Ethnically Structured? -- ?Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ?Model Organism? -- Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model -- Evolution of Culturally Transmitted Teaching Behavior -- Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic -- Mobility and Cultural Diversity in Central-Place Foragers: Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Behavior. 330 $aThis volume is motivated by the desire to explain why Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of cultural differences between the two (sub-)species. It provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural evolution as is being used by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, and psychologists to decipher hominin cultural change and diversity during the Palaeolithic. The contributing authors are directly involved in this effort, and the material presented includes novel approaches and findings. Chapters explain how learning strategies in combination with social and demographic factors (e.g., population size and mobility patterns) predict cultural evolution in a world without the printing press, television, or the Internet. Also addressed is the inverse problem of how learning strategies may be inferred from actual trajectories of cultural change, for example as seen in the North American Palaeolithic. Mathematics and statistics, a sometimes necessary part of theory, are explained in elementary terms where they appear, with details relegated to appendices. Full citations of the relevant literature will help the reader to further pursue any topic of interest. 410 0$aReplacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series,$x2365-063X 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aCulture?Study and teaching 606 $aArchaeology 606 $aEvolutionary biology 606 $aAnthropology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12000 606 $aRegional and Cultural Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411000 606 $aArchaeology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X13000 606 $aEvolutionary Biology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L21001 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 0$aCulture?Study and teaching. 615 0$aArchaeology. 615 0$aEvolutionary biology. 615 14$aAnthropology. 615 24$aRegional and Cultural Studies. 615 24$aArchaeology. 615 24$aEvolutionary Biology. 676 $a300 676 $a301 676 $a576.8 676 $a930.1 702 $aMesoudi$b Alex$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aAoki$b Kenichi$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483987303321 996 $aLearning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic$92737054 997 $aUNINA