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The Evolution of Culture: A Historical and Scientific Overview 🔍
Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar; Chris Knight; Camilla Power New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1. publ, New Brunswick, NJ, 1999
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the Evolution Of Culture Seeks To Explain The Origins, Evolution And Character Of Human Culture, From Language, Art, Music And Ritual To The Use Of Technology And The Beginnings Of Social, Political And Economic Behavior. It Is Concerned Not Only With Where And When Human Culture Evolved, But Also Asks How And Why. The Book Draws Together Original Contributions By Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Linguists And Psychologists. By Integrating Evolutionary Biology With The Social Sciences, It Shows How Contemporary Evolutionary Thinking Can Inform The Study Of The Peculiarly Human Phenomenon Of Culture. The Contributors Call Into Question The Gulf Currently Separating The Natural From The Cultural Sciences. Human Capacities For Culture, They Argue, Evolved Through Standard Processes Of Natural And Sexual Selection And Can Be Properly Analyzed As Biological Adaptations. The Evolution Of Culture Is Fully Referenced And Indexed And Contains A Guide To Further Reading. It Is Accessibly Written And Will Be Sure To Appeal To The Growing Multidisciplinary Readership Now Asking Questions About Human Origins.
Alternative title
The evolution of culture : an interdisciplinary view
Alternative author
Dunbar, R. I. M. (Robin Ian MacDonald), 1947-; Knight, Chris, 1942-; Power, Camilla
Alternative author
Robin Dunbar, Chris Knight, and Camilla Power
Alternative author
Chris Knight; Robin I.M. Dunbar; Camilla Power
Alternative author
R. I. M. Dunbar, Chris Knight, Robin Dunbar
Alternative publisher
Rivergate Books
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United States, United States of America
Alternative edition
September 1999
Alternative edition
None, PS, 1999
Alternative edition
2006
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The Evolution of Culture seeks to explain the origins, evolution and character of human culture, from language, art, music and ritual to the use of technology and the beginnings of social, political and economic behavior. It is concerned not only with where and when human culture evolved, but also asks how and why.
The book draws together original contributions by archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and psychologists. By integrating evolutionary biology with the psychological, social and cultural sciences, it shows how contemporary evolutionary thinking can inform study of the peculiarly human phenomenon of symbolic culture. The contributors call into question the gulf currently separating the natural from the cultural sciences. Human capacities for culture, they argue, evolved through standard processes of natural and sexual selection, and properly be analyzed as biological adaptations.
The book is fully referenced and indexed, and contains a guide to further reading. It has been written to be accessible to the growing multidisciplinary readership now asking questions about human origins.
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An Evolutionary Approach To Human Culture / Chris Knight, Robin Dunbar And Camilla Power -- The Evolution Of Social Organization / Catherine A. Key And Leslie C. Aiello -- Symbolism As Reference And Symbolism As Culture / Philip G. Chase -- Modern Hunter-gatherers And Early Symbolic Culture / Alan Barnard -- Sexual Selection For Cultural Displays / Geoffrey F. Miller -- Beauty Magic : The Origins Of Art / Camilla Power -- The Origin Of Symbolic Culture / Ian Watts -- Symbolism And The Supernatural / Steven Mithen -- The Evolution Of Language And Languages / James R. Hurford -- Culture, Honesty And The Freerider Problem / Robin Dunbar -- Language Variation And The Evolution Of Societies / Daniel Nettle -- Sex And Language As Pretend-play / Chris Knight. Edited By Robin Dunbar, Chris Knight, And Camilla Power. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.
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xii, 257 pages : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
An evolutionary approach to human culture / Chris Knight, Robin Dunbar, Camilla Power -- The evolution of social organization / Catherine A. Key, Leslie C. Aiello -- Symbolism as reference and symbolism as culture / Philip G. Chase -- Modern hunter-gatherers and early symbolic culture / Alan Barnard -- Sexual selection for cultural displays / Geoffrey F. Miller -- "Beauty magic": the origins of art / Camilla Power -- The origin of symbolic culture / Ian Watts -- Symbolism and the supernatural / Steven Mithen -- The evolution of language and languages / James R. Hurford -- Culture, honesty and the freerider problem / Robin Dunbar -- Language variation and the evolution of societies / Daniel Nettle -- Sex and language as pretend-play / Chris Knight
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The past two decades have seen a resurgence in Darwinian evolutionary theory that has revolutionized our understanding of social behaviour.
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