Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences - Softcover

Mesoudi, Alex

 
9780226520445: Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226520447 ISBN 13: 9780226520445
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture.

Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, Alex Mesoudi shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. This cross-disciplinary volume focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically—from theoretical modeling to lab experiments, archaeological fieldwork to ethnographic studies—and shows how apparently disparate methods can complement one another to the mutual benefit of the various social science disciplines. Along the way, the book reveals how new insights arise from looking at culture from an evolutionary angle. Cultural Evolution provides a thought-provoking argument that Darwinian evolutionary theory can both unify different branches of inquiry and enhance understanding of human behavior.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

 Alex Mesoudi is a lecturer in psychology at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author or coauthor of articles in such leading journals as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Evolution, and Psychological Review.


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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226520447
ISBN 13 
9780226520445
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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