Evolution, culture, and the human mind /
Schaller, Mark,1962-
New York, N.Y. ; London : Psychology Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. Introduction / Ara Norenzayan, Marie Schaller and Steven J. Heine -- Sect. I. How Evolution and Culture Fit Together -- 2. Towards a Cultural/Evolutionary Psychology: Cooperation and Complementarity / Paul Rozin -- 3. Human Mind and the Evolution of Cultural Animals / Roy F. Baumeister -- 4. Collective Evolution: Revisiting Donald Campbell's Legacy / Chi-yue Chiu, Young-hoon Kim and Avinish Chaturvedi -- 5. Cultural Evolution: Why Are Some Cultural Variants More Successful Than Others? / Yulia Chentsova Dutton and Chip Heath -- 6. From Genes to Memes: Psychology at the Nexus / Lee A. Kirkpatrick -- Sect. II. Evolutionary Bases of Cultural Phenomena -- 7. Exploring the Evolutionary Foundations of Culture: An Adaptationist Framework / Steven W. Gangestad -- 8. Teach These Souls to Fly: Supernatural as Human Adaptation / Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszozynski, Florette Cohen and Daniel M. Ogilvie -- 9. Birth of High Gods: How the Cultural Evolution of Supernatural Policing Influenced the Emergence of Complex, Cooperative Human Societies, Paving the Way for Civilization / Azim F. Shariff, Ara Norenzayan and Joseph Henrich -- 10. Social Selection and the Origins of Culture / Randolph M. Nesse -- 11. Are Our Minds Fundamentally Egalitarian? Adaptive Bases of Different Sociocultural Models About Distributive Justice / Tatsuya Kameda, Masanori Takezawa, Yohsuke Ohtsubo and Reid Hastie -- Sect. III. Evolutionary Universals and Cross-Cultural Differences -- 12. Color in Mind, Culture, and Language / Debi Roberson -- 13. Institutional Approach to Culture / Toshio Yamagishi and Naota Suzuki -- 14. Cultural Consequences of Voluntary Settlement in the Frontier: Evidence and Implications / Shinobu Kitayama and Nicholas A. Bowman -- 15. Cultural Inertia, Economic Incentives, and the Persistence of "Southern Violence" / Martin Daly and Margo Wilson -- 16. Infectious Diseases and the Evolution of Cross-Cultural Differences / Mark Schaller and Damian R. Murray -- 17. Universal Mechanisms and Cultural Diversity: Replacing the Blank Slate With a Coloring Book / Douglas T. Kenrick, Sarynina Nieuweboer and Abraham P. Buunk.
Evolutionary psychology.
Human evolution.
Culture