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...

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Other Authors: O'Brien, Michael J. (Editor), Shennan, Stephen J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: MIT Press 2009.
Series:Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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505 0 |a 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; 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 
505 8 |a 10 Cultural Traditions and the Evolutionary Advantages of Noninnovation11 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; 14 Can Archaeologists Study Processes of Invention?; 15 War, Women, and Religion; Contributors; Index 
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