The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach (Ucl S) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844720993 ISBN 13: 9781844720996

Verlag: UCL Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Virtually all aspects of human behaviour show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organisation and language. Thousands of distinct cultural groups exist: about 6,000 languages are spoken today, and it is thought that a far greater number of languages existed in the past but became extinct.
Using a Darwinian approach, this book seeks to explain this rich cultural variation. There are a number of theoretical reasons to believe that cultural diversification might be tree-like, that is, phylogenetic: material and non-material culture is clearly inherited by descendants, there is descent with modification, and languages appear to be hierarchically related. Here, for the first time, this title tackles these questions of cultural evolution empirically and quantitatively, using a range of case studies from Africa, the Pacific, Europe, Asia and America.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Professor Ruth Mace, DPhil, is a Reader in Human Evolutionary Ecology at the Department of Anthropology, University College London. Dr Clare Holden, BA (Hons), PhD, is a Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University College London. Professor Stephen is Director of the AHRB Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behaviour (CEACB) at UCL.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UCL Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1844720993
• ISBN 13: 9781844720996
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
• Herausgeber: Holden Clare J., Mace Ruth, Shennan Stephen
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar