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Author:   Andrew Whiten (Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology, and Wardlaw Professor, University of St Andrews, UK) ,  Robert A. Hinde (Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge, UK) ,  Christopher B. Stringer (Natural History Museum, UK) ,  Kevin N. Laland (Professor of Biology, University of St Andrews, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   0.996kg
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9780199608966

ISBN 10:   0199608962
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   22 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Andrew Whiten, Robert A. Hinde, Kevin N. Laland, and Christopher B. Stringer: Introduction Guillaume Rieucau and Luc-Alain Giraldeau: Exploring the costs and benefits of social information use: an appraisal of current experimental evidence K.N. Laland, N.Atton, and M.M. Webster: From fish to fashion: experimental and theoretical insights into the evolution of culture Tore Slagsvold and Karen L. Wiebe: Social learning in birds and its role in shaping a foraging nice Alex Thornton and Tim Clutton-Brock: Social learning and the development of individual and group behaviour in mammal societies Susan Perry: Social traditions and social learning in capuchin monkeys (Cebus) Andrew Whiten: The scope of culture in chimpanzees, humans, and ancestral apes Carel P. van Schaik and Judith M. Burkart: Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis Simon M. Reader, Yfke Hager, and Kevin N. Laland: The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence Ignacio de la Torre: The origins of stone tool technology in Africa: a historical perspective Naama Goren-Inbar: Culture and cognition in the Acheulian industry: a case study from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov Dietrich Stout: Stone toolmaking and the evolution of human culture and cognition Francesco d'Errico and Chris B. Stringer: Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures Stephen Shennan: Descent with modification and the archaeological record R.A. Foley and M. Mirazon Lahr: The evolution of the diversity of cultures Russell D. Gray, Quentin D. Atkinson, and Simon J. Greenhill: Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes Andreea S. Calude and Mark Pagel: How do we use language? Shared patters in the frequency of word use across 17 world languages Thomas E. Currie and Ruth Mace: Mode and tempo in the evolution of socio-political organization: reconciling 'Darwinian' and 'Spencerian' evolutionary approaches in anthropology L. Rendell, R. Boyd, M. Enquist, M.W. Feldman, L. Fogarty, and K. N. Laland: How copying affects the amount, evenness, and persistence of cultural knowledge: insights from the social learning strategies tournament Mark Collard, Briggs Buchanan, Jesse Morin, and Andre Costopoulos: What drives the evolution of hunter gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest Joseph Henrich and James Broesch: On the nature of cultural transmission networks: evidence from Fijian villages for adaptive learning biases Gergely Csibra and Gyorgy Gergeley: Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation Derek E. Lyons, Diana H. Damrosch, Jennifer K. Lin, Deanna M. Macris, and Frank C. Keil: The scope and limits of overimitation in the transmission of artefact culture Barry S. Hewlett, Hillary N. Fouts, Adam H. Boyette, and Bonnie L. Hewlett: Social learning among Congo Basin hunter-gathers Paul L. Harris and Kathleen H. Corriveau: Young children's selective trust in informants

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Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the volume lies in bringing such a diverse range of topics together in one place, for which the editors should be commended. Rarely does one find oneself considering the social transmission of stickleback foraging behaviour, followed a few chapters later by historical analysis of socio-political organisation in small-scale Pacific island societies. This breadth necessarily encompasses multiple disciplines, from biology to anthropology, psychology, archaeology, linguistics, and sociology. Whereas traditionally such disciplines have had little to do with one another, the evolutionary framework adopted here provides a common language within which to understand these diverse phenomena, from fish foraging to Fijian fiefdoms. * Trends in Ecology & Evolution, June 2013 * This collection is an excellent introduction to the vibrant and increasingly diverse field of cultural evolution. It is especially valuable in treating human and non-human culture in a comparative framework Prof Pete Richerson, University of California, USA A compelling account of recent cross-disciplinary progress in solving that mystery of mysteries, the origins of human culture. Perhaps in some important ways, we humans aren't so different after all. Prof Bennett G. Galef, McMaster University, Canada

A compelling account of recent cross-disciplinary progress in solving that mystery of mysteries, the origins of human culture. Perhaps in some important ways, we humans aren't so different after all. Prof Bennett G. Galef, McMaster University, Canada This collection is an excellent introduction to the vibrant and increasingly diverse field of cultural evolution. It is especially valuable in treating human and non-human culture in a comparative framework Prof Pete Richerson, University of California, USA Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the volume lies in bringing such a diverse range of topics together in one place, for which the editors should be commended. Rarely does one find oneself considering the social transmission of stickleback foraging behaviour, followed a few chapters later by historical analysis of socio-political organisation in small-scale Pacific island societies. This breadth necessarily encompasses multiple disciplines, from biology to anthropology, psychology, archaeology, linguistics, and sociology. Whereas traditionally such disciplines have had little to do with one another, the evolutionary framework adopted here provides a common language within which to understand these diverse phenomena, from fish foraging to Fijian fiefdoms. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, June 2013

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Andrew Whiten is Director of the Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution at the University of St Andrews and Director of the University's 'Living Links to Human Evolution' Research Centre in Edinburgh Zoo. His research interests are broadly in the evolution and development of social cognition, with a particular recent focus on social learning, tradition and culture in humans and in non-human primates. Robert A. Hinde is formerly Royal Society Research Professor and Master, St. John's College, Cambridge, UK. Kevin N Laland received his PhD from University College London in 1990 and is currently Professor of Biology at the University of St Andrews. His research employs both experimental and theoretical methods to investigate a range of topics related to animal (including human) behaviour and evolution, particularly niche construction, social learning, and gene-culture co-evolution. He is the author of over 170 scientific articles and 8 books. Professor Chris Stringer has worked at the Natural History Museum since 1973, and is now Research Leader in Human Origins and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His early research concentrated on the relationship of Neanderthals and early modern humans in Europe, but through his work on the 'Out of Africa' theory of modern human origins, he now collaborates with archaeologists, dating specialists and geneticists in attempting to reconstruct the evolution of modern humans globally. His recent books include The Complete World of Human Evolution (2005, with Peter Andrews), and Homo britannicus (2006), which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize. He has excavated at sites in Britain, Gibraltar, Morocco and Turkey, and is currently leading the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project in its third phase (AHOB3), which began in October 2009, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. AHOB is a major collaborative project to reconstruct the pattern of the earliest human colonisations of Britain and Europe.

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