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Cultural Evolution - How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,834
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Cultural Evolution - How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences (Hardcover, New): Alex...

Cultural Evolution - How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences (Hardcover, New)

Alex Mesoudi

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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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Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2011
First published: September 2011
Authors: Alex Mesoudi
Dimensions: 237 x 157 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 280
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52043-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN: 0-226-52043-9
Barcode: 9780226520438

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