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Cultural Evolution (Paperback)
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Cultural Evolution (Paperback)
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In this book, Kate Distin proposes a theory of cultural evolution
and shows how it can help us to understand the origin and
development of human culture. Distin introduces the concept that
humans share information not only in natural languages, which are
spoken or signed, but also in artefactual languages like writing
and musical notation, which use media that are made by humans.
Languages enable humans to receive and transmit variations in
cultural information and resources. In this way, they provide the
mechanism for cultural evolution. The human capacity for
metarepresentation - thinking about how we think - accelerates
cultural evolution, because it frees cultural information from the
conceptual limitations of each individual language. Distin shows
how the concept of cultural evolution outlined in this book can
help us to understand the complexity and diversity of human
culture, relating her theory to a range of subjects including
economics, linguistics, and developmental biology.
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