Cultural evolution / Kate Distin.
"In this book, Kate Distin proposes a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the origin and development of human culture. Distin introduces the concept that humans share information not only in natural languages, which are spoken or signed, but also in artefactu...
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "Small consequences of one general law"
- pt. 1. The inheritance of cultural information. What is information? How is information inherited?
- pt. 2. The inheritance of cultural information : natural language. Natural language and culture : the biological building blocks ; How did natural language evolve? ; Language, thought, and culture
- pt. 3. The inheritance of cultural information : artefactual language. How did artefactual language evolve? ; Artefactual language, representation and culture ; Money : an artefactual language ; Money : the explanatory power of artefactual languages
- pt. 4. The receivers of cultural information. How does human diversity affect cultural evolution?
- pt. 5. The expression of cultural information. Aspects of the cultural ecology ; Patterns of cultural taxonomy ; Conclusion : a representational understanding of cultural evolution
- Appendix : What about mimetics?