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  title info:
    title: Cultural evolution
    sub title: society, technology, language, and religion
  name:
    name part: Richerson, Peter J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Christiansen, Morten H.
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 485 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: Over the past few decades, a growing body of research has emerged from a variety of disciplines to highlight the importance of cultural evolution in understanding human behavior. Wider application of these insights, however, has been hampered by traditional disciplinary boundaries. To remedy this, in this volume leading researchers from theoretical biology, developmental and cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, religious studies, history, and economics come together to explore the central role of cultural evolution in different aspects of human endeavor. The contributors take as their guiding principle the idea that cultural evolution can provide an important integrating function across the various disciplines of the human sciences, as organic evolution does for biology. The benefits of adopting a cultural evolutionary perspective are demonstrated by contributions on social systems, technology, language, and religion. Topics covered include enforcement of norms in human groups, the neuroscience of technology, language diversity, and prosociality and religion. The contributors evaluate current research on cultural evolution and consider its broader theoretical and practical implications, synthesizing past and ongoing work and sketching a roadmap for future cross-disciplinary efforts.
  note: edited by Peter J. Richerson and Morten H. Christiansen.
  subject:
    topic: Social evolution
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
  subject:
    topic: BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
  classification: HM626 .C84295 2013eb
  classification: 303.4
  identifier: 9781461950356
  identifier: 146195035X
  identifier: 1306091136
  identifier: 9781306091138
  identifier: 9780262318297
  identifier: 0262318296
  identifier: 9780262019750
  identifier: 0262019752
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 131205
    record change date: 20221121162717.0
    record identifier: in00004602780
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng