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Innovation in Cultural Systems : Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262259101
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Innovation in Cultural SystemsDDC classification:
  • 599.9
LOC classification:
  • GN60.I56 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- 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 -- 14 Can Archaeologists Study Processes of Invention? -- 15 War, Women, and Religion -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture.
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Intro -- 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 -- 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 -- 14 Can Archaeologists Study Processes of Invention? -- 15 War, Women, and Religion -- Contributors -- Index.

Leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture.

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