The origin and evolution of cultures / Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyd, Robert, 1948- author.

Richerson, Peter J., author.

Series:

Evolution and cognition.

Oxford scholarship online.

Evolution and cognition

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social evolution.

Culture--Origin.

Culture.

Human evolution.

Sociobiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 21, 2023).

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

OCLC:

171560350