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Cultural Evolution - Conceptual Challenges (Hardcover)
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Cultural Evolution - Conceptual Challenges (Hardcover)
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Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary
approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is
often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power of
natural selection, many thinkers-typically working in biological
anthropology, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology-have
suggested it should be freed from the confines of biology, and
applied to cultural change in humans and other animals. At the same
time, others-typically with backgrounds in disciplines like social
anthropology and history-have been just as vocal in dismissing the
evolutionary approach to culture. What drives these disputes over
Darwinism in the social sciences? While making a case for the value
of evolutionary thinking for students of culture, Lewens shows why
the concerns of sceptics should not dismissed as mere prejudice,
confusion, or ignorance. Indeed, confusions about what evolutionary
approaches entail are propagated by their proponents, as well as by
their detractors. By taking seriously the problems faced by these
approaches to culture, Lewens shows how such approaches can be
better formulated, where their most significant limitations lie,
and how the tools of cultural evolutionary thinking might become
more widely accepted.
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