
The Origin and Evolution of Cultures
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART 1: THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL LEARNING
- 1: Social Learning as an Adaptation
- 2: Why Does Culture Increase Human Adaptability?
- 3: Why Culture Is Common, but Cultural Evolution Is Rare
- 4: Climate, Culture, and the Evolution of Cognition
- 5: Norms and Bounded Rationality
- PART 2: ETHNIC GROUPS AND MARKERS
- 6: The Evolution of Ethnic Markers
- 7: Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers With Richard McElreath
- PART 3: HUMAN COOPERATION, RECIPROCITY, AND GROUP SELECTION
- 8: The Evolution of Reciprocity in Sizable Groups
- 9: Punishment Allows the Evolution of Cooperation (or Anything Else) in Sizable Groups
- 10: Why People Punish Defectors: Weak Conformist Transmission Can Stabilize Costly Enforcement of Norms in Cooperative Dilemmas
- 11: Can Group-Functional Behaviors Evolve by Cultural Group Selection? An Empirical Test
- 12: Group-Beneficial Norms Can Spread Rapidly in a Structured Population
- 13: The Evolution of Altruistic Punishment With Herbert Gintis and Samuel Bowles
- 14: Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation With Joseph Henrich
- PART 4: ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURE HISTORY
- 15: How Microevolutionary Processes Give Rise to History
- 16: Are Cultural Phylogenies Possible? With Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and William H. Durham
- 17: Was Agriculture Impossible during the Pleistocene but Mandatory during the Holocene? A Climate Change Hypothesis With Robert L. Bettinger
- PART 5: LINKS TO OTHER DISCIPLINES
- 18: Rationality, Imitation, and Tradition
- 19: Simple Models of Complex Phenomena: The Case of Cultural Evolution
- 20: Memes: Universal Acid or a Better Mousetrap?
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