دانلود کتاب Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences

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Front Cover\r......Page 1
Title Page\r......Page 4
Copyright\r......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 16
1. A Cultural Species......Page 18
What Is Culture?......Page 19
How Important Is Culture?......Page 21
Culture, Environment, or Genes?......Page 28
Problems with How Culture Is Studied......Page 34
Conclusion: Culture Is important, But Inadequately Studied......Page 39
2. Cultural Evolution......Page 42
Does Cultural Change Exhibit Darwin’s Three Preconditions?......Page 44
Further Parallels......Page 51
Darwinian versus Spencerian Theories of Cultural Evolution......Page 54
Darwinian versus Neo-Darwinian Theories of Cultural Evolution......Page 57
Bridging the Micro-Macro Divide......Page 64
Conclusion: A Darwinian Theory of Culture Can Synthesize the Social Sciences......Page 70
3. Cultural Microevolution......Page 72
Cultural Transmission......Page 75
Guided Variation (or Lamarckian Inheritance)......Page 80
Cultural Selection......Page 81
Cultural Drift......Page 93
Natural Selection......Page 96
Cultural Migration......Page 98
Conclusion: A Quantitative Theory of Darwinian Cultural Evolution......Page 99
4. Cultural Macroevolution I: Archaeology and Anthropology......Page 102
Phylogenetics: Reconstructing the Tree of Life (and Culture)......Page 103
Drift and Demography in Cultural Macroevolution......Page 120
Conclusions: Evolutionary Insights into Culture’s Distant Past......Page 126
5. Cultural Macroevolution II: Language and History......Page 128
Language Evolution: Descending the Tower of Babel......Page 129
Manuscript Evolution......Page 136
Population Ecology Meets History: The Rise and Fall of Empires......Page 139
Objections to Cultural Evolutionary Analyses of History......Page 147
Conclusions: Linking Microand Macro-......Page 150
Simulating Biological Evolution in the Lab......Page 152
From E. Coli to Culture......Page 155
Conclusions: The Bene. ts of Lab Experiments......Page 176
7. Evolutionary Ethnography: Cultural Evolution in the Field......Page 178
Studying Biological Evolution in the Field......Page 179
Studying Cultural Evolution in the Field......Page 180
From the Forest to the Lab: Observing Scientists in Their Natural Habitat......Page 188
Conclusions: The Bene. ts of Field Studies......Page 192
8. Evolutionary Economics: Cultural Evolution in the Marketplace......Page 194
Evolutionary Economics: Challenging the Myth of Perfect Foresight......Page 195
Behavioral Economics: Challenging the Myth of Pure Self-Interest......Page 201
Conclusions: Cultural Evolution Explains Economic Phenomena Better Than Standard Economic Theory......Page 205
9. Culture in Nonhuman Species......Page 206
Social Learning Is Widespread and Adaptive......Page 209
From Social Learning to Cultural Traditions......Page 210
From Cultural Traditions to Cumulative Cultural Evolution......Page 213
Conclusions: Other Species Have Culture, But Not Cultural Evolution......Page 220
10. Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis for the Social Sciences......Page 222
Advantages of Evolutionary Methods......Page 223
Toward a Synthesis......Page 227
Practical Benefits......Page 236
Conclusions......Page 237
chapter one......Page 238
chapter two......Page 240
chapter three......Page 244
chapter four......Page 247
chapter five......Page 248
chapter six......Page 249
chapter seven......Page 250
chapter eight......Page 251
chapter nine......Page 252
chapter ten......Page 253
Works Cited......Page 256
Index......Page 274