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Beyond the Meme
Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution
Sabina LeonelliContributorNancy J. NersessianContributorMichel JanssenContributorJacob G. FosterContributorJames A. EvansContributorMark A. BedauContributorMarshall AbramsContributorGilbert B. TostevinContributorSalikoko S. MufweneContributorMassimo MaiocchiContributorJoseph D. MartinContributorPaul E. SmaldinoContributorClaes AnderssonContributorAnton TörnbergContributorPetter TörnbergContributorAlan C. LoveAuthorWilliam C. WimsattAuthor
Beyond the Meme assembles interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution, providing a nuanced understanding of it as a process in which dynamic structures interact on different scales of size and time. The volume demonstrates how a thick understanding of change in culture emerges from multiple disciplinary vantage points, each of which is required to understand cultural evolution in all its complexity.
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PDF PDF The Evolution of Language as Technology: The Cultural Dimension
PDF Writing in Early Mesopotamia: The Historical Interplay of Technology, Cognition, and Environment
PDF Cultural Scaffolding and Technological Change: A Preliminary Framework
PDF The Evolution of the Social Self: Multidimensionality of Social Identity Solves the Coordination Problems of a Society
PDF Promiscuous Inventions: Modeling Cultural Evolution with Multiple Inheritance
PDF Articulating Babel: A Conceptual Geography for Cultural Evolution
PDF Content Matters: The Materiality of Cultural Transmission and the Intersection of Paleolithic Archaeology with Cultural Evolutionary Theory
PDF Scientific Agency and Social Scaffolding in Contemporary Data-Intensive Biology
PDF Introduction
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- rightsThe University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance provided for the publication of this book by the Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and the John Templeton Foundation.
Copyright 2019 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota
- edition1
- publisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
- publisher placeMinneapolis, MN
- restrictionsAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
- rights holderRegents of the University of Minnesota
- rights territoryWorld
- series number22
- series titleMinnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
- version1.0
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