The origin and evolution of cultures / / Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson
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| Autore: |
Boyd Robert, Ph. D.
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| Titolo: |
The origin and evolution of cultures / / Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (465 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social evolution |
| Culture - Origin | |
| Human evolution | |
| Sociobiology | |
| Altri autori: |
RichersonPeter J
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; PART 1: THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL LEARNING; 1: Social Learning as an Adaptation; 2: Why Does Culture Increase Human Adaptability?; 3: Why Culture Is Common, but Cultural Evolution Is Rare; 4: Climate, Culture, and the Evolution of Cognition; 5: Norms and Bounded Rationality; PART 2: ETHNIC GROUPS AND MARKERS; 6: The Evolution of Ethnic Markers; 7: Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers With Richard McElreath; PART 3: HUMAN COOPERATION, RECIPROCITY, AND GROUP SELECTION; 8: The Evolution of Reciprocity in Sizable Groups |
| 9: Punishment Allows the Evolution of Cooperation (or Anything Else) in Sizable Groups10: Why People Punish Defectors: Weak Conformist Transmission Can Stabilize Costly Enforcement of Norms in Cooperative Dilemmas; 11: Can Group-Functional Behaviors Evolve by Cultural Group Selection? An Empirical Test; 12: Group-Beneficial Norms Can Spread Rapidly in a Structured Population; 13: The Evolution of Altruistic Punishment With Herbert Gintis and Samuel Bowles; 14: Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation With Joseph Henrich; PART 4: ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURE HISTORY | |
| 15: How Microevolutionary Processes Give Rise to History16: Are Cultural Phylogenies Possible? With Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and William H. Durham; 17: 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; 18: Rationality, Imitation, and Tradition; 19: Simple Models of Complex Phenomena: The Case of Cultural Evolution; 20: Memes: Universal Acid or a Better Mousetrap?; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index | |
| AB; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Presents 20 articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work assumes that culture is crucial for understanding human behaviour; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes, and values heavily influence our behaviour. It also states that culture is part of biology. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Origin and evolution of cultures origin and evolution of cultures |
| ISBN: | 0-19-773115-5 |
| 0-19-988312-2 | |
| 1-280-56055-X | |
| 9786610560554 | |
| 0-19-534744-7 | |
| 1-4237-5685-1 | |
| 1-4337-0058-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784670503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Evolution and cognition.