The origin and evolution of cultures [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson

• Autore: Boyd Robert, Ph. D.
• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RichersonPeter J
• 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: 0-19-988312-2; 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.: 9910457526503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Evolution and cognition.