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That Complex Whole - Culture And The Evolution Of Human Behavior (Paperback)
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That Complex Whole - Culture And The Evolution Of Human Behavior (Paperback)
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When evolutionary biology stretched out a tentacle called
sociobiology and began to probe human behavior back in the 1970s,
there was no room for neutrality. Advocates of the new science
hailed the dawn of a new era in our understanding of human
behavior, while opponents wrung their hands with concern over the
new field's potential to transform and even destroy anthropology
and other social and behavioral sciences. Twenty years later,
little has changed. Anthropology and its sister disciplines are
still intact and thriving, though they seldom make use of insights
from evolutionary biology. Cultural anthropology in particular has
recoiled from the biological threat by moving away from the
sciences and toward the humanities. During that same time, a new
generation of scholars in biological anthropology, psychology, and
other fields has made great progress by using evolutionary theory
to understand human behavior, applying it to everything from mating
and parenting to the study of mental illness. The success of this
research program is threatened, however, by its lack of a serious
role for the concept of culture."That Complex Whole: Culture and
the Evolution of Human Behavior" is an effort to develop a
scientific study of human behavior that is at once evolutionary and
cultural. In a lively, readable style, it deals with such serious,
scholarly issues as how to best define culture, the question of
whether culture is present in other species, human universals and
human diversity, the relationship between culture and behavior, and
cultural and moral relativism. It covers existing models of the
relationship between cultural and biological evolution, including
the concept of the meme and the new science of memetics, as well as
the author's own work on the role of culture in human
communications that draws upon the study of animal signals.
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