The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition) (Evolution and Cognition Series) - Tapa blanda

Libro 6 de 13: Evolution and Cognition

Boyd, Robert

 
9780195181456: The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition) (Evolution and Cognition Series)
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ISBN 10: 019518145X ISBN 13: 9780195181456
Editorial: Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Sinopsis

Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes, and values heavily influence our behavior. Secondly, culture is part of biology: the capacity to acquire and transmit culture is a derived component of human psychology, and the contents of culture are deeply intertwined with our biology. Culture then is a pool of information, stored in the brains of the population that gets transmitted from one brain to another by social learning processes. Therefore, culture can account for both our outstanding ecological success as well as the maladaptations that characterize much of human behavior. The interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science.

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Peter J. Richerson is Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis.

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Oxford University Press, USA
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
019518145X
ISBN 13 
9780195181456
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Número de páginas
467
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9780195165241: The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition Series)

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ISBN 10:  0195165241 ISBN 13:  9780195165241
Editorial: OUP USA, 2005
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