Cultural evolution
Subtitle: how Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences
By: Alex Mesoudi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780226520438; 9780226520445
Subjects: Culture; Social evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A cultural species; title: Cultural evolution; title: Cultural microevolution; title: Cultural macroevolution i: archaeology and anthropology; title: Cultural macroevolution ii: language and history; title: Evolutionary experiments: cultural evolution in the lab; title: Evolutionary ethnography: cultural evolution in the field; title: Evolutionary economics: cultural evolution in the marketplace; title: Culture in nonhuman species; title: Toward an evolutionary synthesis for the social sciences.