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The origin and evolution of cultures /

Основен автор: Boyd, Robert.
Други автори: Richerson, Peter J.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Серия: Evolution and cognition.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Origin and evolution of cultures.
Съдържание:
  • 1: The evolution of social learning
  • Social learning and adaptation
  • Why does culture increase human adaptability?
  • Why culture is common, but cultural evolution is rare
  • Climate, culture, and the evolution of cognition
  • Norms and bounded rationality
  • 2: Ethnic groups and markers
  • The evolution of ethnic markers
  • Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers / with Richard McElreath
  • 3: Human cooperation, reciprocity, and group selection
  • The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups
  • Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups
  • Why people punish defector: weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas / with Joseph Henrich
  • Can group-functional behaviors evolve by cultural group selection? an empirical test / with Joseph Soltis
  • Group-beneficial norms can spread rapidly in a structured population
  • The evolution of altruistic punishment / with Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles
  • Cultural evolution of human cooperation / with Joseph Henrich
  • 4: Archaeology and culture history
  • How microevolutionary processes give rise to history
  • Are cultural phylogenies possible? / with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, William H. Durham
  • Was agriculture impossible during the Pleistocene but mandatory during the Holocene? a climate change hypothesis / with Robert L. Bettinger
  • 5: Links to other disciplines
  • Rationality, imitation, and tradition
  • Simple models of complex phenomena: the case of cultural evolution
  • Memes: universal acid or a better mousetrap?