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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) :illustrations.
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The importance of small decisions :how culture evolves
How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news. Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded the idea that agents act rationally and the market follows suit. It seems that no matter how sma…
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- 9780262352536
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Cultural evolution : society, technology, language, and religion
Over the past few decades, a growing body of research has emerged from a variety of disciplines to highlight the importance of cultural evolution in understanding human behavior. Wider application of these insights, however, has been hampered by traditional disciplinary boundaries. To remedy this, in this volume leading researchers from theoretical biology, developmental and cognitive psycholog…
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- 9781461950356
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- 1 online resource (xi, 485 pages) :illustrations.
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The acceleration of cultural change :from ancestors to algorithms
From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting from mate selection. But we now find ourselves binge-viewing, texting while driving, and playing Minecraft. Only the collective acceleration of cultural and technological evolution explains t…
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Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition
'Scaffolding' is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology cognitive science, social theory, science and technology studies, and human development. Despite its widespread use, the concept of scaffolding is often given short shrift; the contributors to this volume offer a …
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- 9781461952367
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 426 pages) :illustrations.
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Memes in digital culture
"In December 2012, the exuberant video 'Gangnam Style' became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video: 'Mitt Romney Style, ' 'NASA Johnson Style, ' 'Egyptian Style, ' and many others. 'Gangnam Style' (and its attendant parodies, imitations, and derivations) is one of the most fa…
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- 9781461947332
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- 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) :illustrations.
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