Description: 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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EAN: 9780226520445
UPC: 9780226520445
ISBN: 9780226520445
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Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Cultural Evolution : How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.2 Oz
Author: Alex Mesoudi
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback