Culture evolves / edited by Andrew Whiten [and others].
| Other author | Whiten, Andrew. |
| Other author | Royal Society (Great Britain) |
| Other author | British Academy. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. |
| Description | xvi, 454 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Subjects |
| Series | Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences ; [special issue] Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. Special issue. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | A note to the reader and early bibliography concerning anthropology and cultural evolution -- Introduction : culture evolves / Andrew Whiten ... [et al.] -- Exploring the costs and benefits of social information use : an appraisal of current experimental evidence / Guillaume Rieucau and Luc-Alain Giraldeau -- From fish to fashion : experimental and theoretical insights into the evolution of culture / Kevin N. Laland, Nicola Atton and Michael M. Webster -- Social learning in birds and its role in shaping a foraging niche / Tore Slagsvold and Karen L. Wiebe -- Social learning and the development of individual and group behaviour in mammal societies / Alex Thornton and Tim Clutton-Brock -- Social traditions and social learning in capuchin monkeys (Cebus) / Susan Perry -- The scope of culture in chimpanzees, humans and ancestral apes / Andrew Whiten -- Social learning and evolution : the cultural intelligence hypothesis / Carel P. van Schaik and Judith M. Burkart -- The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence / Simon M. Reader, Yfke Hager and Kevin N. Laland -- The origins of stone tool technology in Africa : a historical perspective / Ignacio de la Torre -- Culture and cognition in the Acheulian industry : a case study from Gesher Benot Yaʻaqov / Naama Goren-Inbar -- Stone toolmaking and the evolution of human culture and cognition / Dietrich Stout -- Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures? / Francesco d'Errico and Christopher B. Stringer -- Descent with modification and the archaeological record / Stephen Shennan -- The evolution of the diversity of cultures / R.A. Foley and M. Mirazón Lahr -- Language evolution and human history : what a difference a date makes / Russell D. Gray, Quentin D. Atkinson and Simon J. Greenhill -- How do we use language? : shared patterns in the frequency of word use across 17 world languages / Andreea S. Calude and Mark Pagel -- Mode and tempo in the evolution of organization : reconciling 'Darwinian' and 'Spencerian' evolutionary approaches in anthropology / Thomas E. Currie and Ruth Mace -- How copying affects the amount, evenness and persistence of cultural knowledge : insights from the social learning strategies tournament / Luke Rendell ... [et al.] -- What drives the evolution of hunter-gatherer subsistence technology? : a reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest / Mark Collard ... [et al.] -- On the nature of cultural transmission networks : evidence from Fijian villages for adaptive learning biases / Joseph Henrich and James Broesch -- Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation / Gergely Csibra and György Gergely -- The scope and limits of overimitation in the transmission of artefact culture / Derek E. Lyons ... [et al.] -- Social learning among Congo Basin hunter-gatherers / Barry S. Hewlett ... [et al.] -- Young children's selective trust in informants / Paul L. Harris and Kathleen H. Corriveau. |
| General note | Outgrowth of a three-day Discussion meeting held June 28-30, 2010, organized jointly by the Royal Society and the British Academy, published as a special issue of the Philosophical transactions. Cf. pref. and the Royal Society's website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780199608966 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0199608962 (hbk.) |