Innovation in cultural systems : contributions from evolutionary anthropology /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. |
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| Description: | xi, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Vienna series in theoretical biology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7892301 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- I. Introduction
- 1. Issues in Anthropological Studies of Innovation
- II. The Biological Substrate
- 2. Innovation and Invention from a Logical Point of View
- 3. Comparative Perspectives on Human Innovation
- 4. Organismal Innovation
- 5. Innovation, Replicative Behavior, and Evolvability
- Contributions from Neuroscience and Human Decision-Making Theory
- 6. Innovation from EvoDevo to Human Culture
- III. Cultural Inheritance
- 7. The Evolution of Innovation-Enhancing Institutions
- 8. Fashion versus Reason in the Creative Industries
- 9. Demography and Variation in the Accumulation of Culturally Inherited Skills
- 10. Cultural Traditions and the Evolutionary Advantages of Noninnovation
- 11. The Experimental Study of Cultural Innovation
- 12. Social Learning, Economic Inequality, and Innovation Diffusion
- IV. Patterns in the Anthropological Record
- 13. Technological Innovations and Developmental Trajectories
- Social Factors as Evolutionary Forces
- 14. Can Archaeologists Study Processes of Invention?
- 15. War, Women, and Religion
- The Spread of Salado Polychrome in the American Southwest
- Contributors
- Index
