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| Other authors / contributors: | Richerson, Peter J.
McElreath, Richard, 1973-
Henrich, Joseph Patrick.
Soltis, Joseph Mark, 1962-
Gintis, Herbert.
Bowles, Samuel.
Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff.
Durham, William H.
Bettinger, Robert L.
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| ISBN: | 9781423756859
1423756851
9781280560552
128056055X
9786610560554
6610560552
9780195347449
0195347447
9781433700583
1433700581
9780199883127
0199883122
9780195165241
0195165241
9780195181456
019518145X
0195165241
9780195165241
019518145X
9780195181456
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and indexes.
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| Summary: | 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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| Other form: | Print version: Boyd, Robert, 1948- Origin and evolution of cultures. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0195165241 019518145X
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| Standard no.: | 9780195165241
9780195181456
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