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"Stephen Shennan opens with the study of human behaviour, as acted upon by natural selection, and goes on to demonstrate that the same ideas can be applied to human societies, not just through the genes but through what Richard Dawkins has called ""memes"", units of cultural information which are passed on in our second inheritance system, culture. The book ranges from life history theory to game theory, and from the origins of farming to the collapse of societies."

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'Fresh and surprising... a fascinating book' - Matt Ridley, bestselling author of Genome: The Autobiography of a Species and The Red Queen 'A brilliant book which radically reshapes much current thinking about the processes of culture change' - Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge

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Stephen Shennan is Professor of Theoretical Archaeology and Director of the AHRB Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Culture at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Among his previous books are Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity and The Archaeology of Human Ancestry.

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