Expounds a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the development of human culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kate Distin was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Sheffield. She is the author of The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and the editor of the award-winning Gifted Children: A Guide for Parents and Professionals (2006).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: small consequences of one general law Part I. The Inheritance of Cultural Information: 2. What is information? 3. How is information inherited? Part II. The Inheritance of Cultural Information: Natural Language: 4. Natural language and culture: the biological building blocks 5. How did natural language evolve? 6. Language, thought, and culture Part III. In Inheritance of Cultural Information: Artefactual Language: 7. How did artefactual language evolve? 8. Artefactual language, representation and culture 9. Money: an artefactual language 10. Money: the explanatory power of artefactual languages Part III. The Receivers of Cultural Information: 11. How does human diversity affect cultural evolution? Part IV. The Expression of Cultural Information: 12. Aspects of the cultural ecology 13. Patterns of cultural taxonomy 14. Conclusion: a representational understanding of cultural evolution Appendix: what about memetics?
1. Introduction: small consequences of one general law; Part I. The Inheritance of Cultural Information: 2. What is information?; 3. How is information inherited?; Part II. The Inheritance of Cultural Information: Natural Language: 4. Natural language and culture: the biological building blocks; 5. How did natural language evolve?; 6. Language, thought, and culture; Part III. In Inheritance of Cultural Information: Artefactual Language: 7. How did artefactual language evolve?; 8. Artefactual language, representation and culture; 9. Money: an artefactual language; 10. Money: the explanatory power of artefactual languages; Part III. The Receivers of Cultural Information: 11. How does human diversity affect cultural evolution?; Part IV. The Expression of Cultural Information: 12. Aspects of the cultural ecology; 13. Patterns of cultural taxonomy; 14. Conclusion: a representational understanding of cultural evolution; Appendix: what about memetics?
1. Introduction: small consequences of one general law Part I. The Inheritance of Cultural Information: 2. What is information? 3. How is information inherited? Part II. The Inheritance of Cultural Information: Natural Language: 4. Natural language and culture: the biological building blocks 5. How did natural language evolve? 6. Language, thought, and culture Part III. In Inheritance of Cultural Information: Artefactual Language: 7. How did artefactual language evolve? 8. Artefactual language, representation and culture 9. Money: an artefactual language 10. Money: the explanatory power of artefactual languages Part III. The Receivers of Cultural Information: 11. How does human diversity affect cultural evolution? Part IV. The Expression of Cultural Information: 12. Aspects of the cultural ecology 13. Patterns of cultural taxonomy 14. Conclusion: a representational understanding of cultural evolution Appendix: what about memetics?
1. Introduction: small consequences of one general law; Part I. The Inheritance of Cultural Information: 2. What is information?; 3. How is information inherited?; Part II. The Inheritance of Cultural Information: Natural Language: 4. Natural language and culture: the biological building blocks; 5. How did natural language evolve?; 6. Language, thought, and culture; Part III. In Inheritance of Cultural Information: Artefactual Language: 7. How did artefactual language evolve?; 8. Artefactual language, representation and culture; 9. Money: an artefactual language; 10. Money: the explanatory power of artefactual languages; Part III. The Receivers of Cultural Information: 11. How does human diversity affect cultural evolution?; Part IV. The Expression of Cultural Information: 12. Aspects of the cultural ecology; 13. Patterns of cultural taxonomy; 14. Conclusion: a representational understanding of cultural evolution; Appendix: what about memetics?
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