Cultural evolution
Publisher: Cambridge university press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780521769013
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Introduction: “Small Consequences of One General Law”
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: The inheritance of cultural information; label: 2
title: What Is Information?
pagenum: 11; label: 3
title: How Is Information Inherited?
pagenum: 25; label: Part II
title: The Inheritance Of Cultural Information: Natural Language; label: 4
title: Natural Language and Culture: The Biological Building Blocks
pagenum: 49; label: 5
title: How Did Natural Language Evolve?
pagenum: 62; label: 6
title: Language, Thought and Culture
pagenum: 78; label: Part III
title: The Inheritance Of Cultural Information: Artefactual Language; label: 7
title: How Did Artefactual Language Evolve?
pagenum: 89; label: 8
title: Artefactual Language, Representation and Culture
pagenum: 107; label: 9
title: Money: An Artefactual Language
pagenum: 126; label: 10
title: Money: The Explanatory Power of Artefactual Languages
pagenum: 146; label: Part IV
title: The Receivers Of Cultural Information; label: 11
title: How Does Human Diversity Affect Cultural Evolution?
pagenum: 169; label: Part V
title: The Expression Of Cultural Information; label: 12
title: Aspects of the Cultural Ecology
pagenum: 185; label: 13
title: Patterns of Cultural Taxonomy
pagenum: 200; label: 14
title: Conclusion: A Representational Understanding of Cultural Evolution
pagenum: 220; label: Appendix
title: What about Memetics?
pagenum: 231; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 235; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 239; title: Index
pagenum: 263