Cultural evolution : how Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences / Alex Mesoudi.
- Mesoudi, Alex.
- Date:
- 2011
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Physical description
xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents
A cultural species -- Cultural evolution -- Cultural microevolution -- Cultural macroevolution i: archaeology and anthropology -- Cultural macroevolution ii: language and history -- Evolutionary experiments: cultural evolution in the lab -- Evolutionary ethnography: cultural evolution in the field -- Evolutionary economics: cultural evolution in the marketplace -- Culture in nonhuman species -- Toward an evolutionary synthesis for the social sciences.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Location Status Medical CollectionHM626 2011M48cOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780226520438
- 0226520439
- 9780226520445
- 0226520447