The Evolution of Culture: An Interdisciplinary View edited by Robin Dunbar, Chris Knight, Camilla Power
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Overview: This book seeks to explain the origins, evolution and character of human culture, from language, art, music and ritual to the use of technology and the beginnings of social, political and economic behaviour. It is concerned not only with where and when human culture evolved, but also asks how and why.
The book draws together contributions by archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and psychologists. By integrating evolutionary biology with the psychologi cal, social and cultural sciences, it shows how contemporary evolutionary think ing can inform the study of the peculiarly human phenomenon of symbolic culture , and calls into question the gulf currently separating the natural from the cultural sciences. Human capacities for culture, it argues, evolved through stand ard processes of natural and sexual selection, and can properly be analysed as biological adaptations.
The book is clearly organised into parts, each separately introduced. It is ful ly referenced and indexed, and contains a guide to further reading. It has been written to be accessible to the growing multidisciplinary readership now asking questions about human origins.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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