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" Cultural evolution / "
Kate Distin.
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BL
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1028296
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b782666
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| Main Entry
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Distin, Kate,1970-
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Cultural evolution /\ Kate Distin.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [U.K.] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2011.
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1 online resource (vi, 272 pages) :: illustrations
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0511779976
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: 0511785690
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: 1282725009
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: 9780511779978
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: 9780511785696
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: 9780511786839
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: 9780511787973
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: 9780511788703
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: 9781107209350
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: 9781282725003
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: 9786612725005
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : "Small consequences of one general law" -- pt. 1. The inheritance of cultural information. What is information? How is information inherited? -- pt. 2. The inheritance of cultural information : natural language. Natural language and culture : the biological building blocks ; How did natural language evolve? ; Language, thought, and culture -- pt. 3. The inheritance of cultural information : artefactual language. How did artefactual language evolve? ; Artefactual language, representation and culture ; Money : an artefactual language ; Money : the explanatory power of artefactual languages -- pt. 4. The receivers of cultural information. How does human diversity affect cultural evolution? -- pt. 5. The expression of cultural information. Aspects of the cultural ecology ; Patterns of cultural taxonomy ; Conclusion : a representational understanding of cultural evolution -- Appendix : What about mimetics?
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"In this book, Kate Distin proposes a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the origin and development of human culture. Distin introduces the concept that humans share information not only in natural languages, which are spoken or signed, but also in artefactual languages like writing and musical notation, which use media that are made by humans. Languages enable humans to receive and transmit variations in cultural information and resources. In this way, they provide the mechanism for cultural evolution. The human capacity for metarepresentation - thinking about how we think - accelerates cultural evolution, because it frees cultural information from the conceptual limitations of each individual language. Distin shows how the concept of cultural evolution outlined in this book can help us to understand the complexity and diversity of human culture, relating her theory to a range of subjects including economics, linguistics, and developmental biology."--Publisher's description.
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Human beings-- Origin.
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Human evolution.
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Language and languages-- Origin.
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Social evolution.
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Human beings-- Origin.
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Human evolution.
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Kulturelle Entwicklung
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Language and languages-- Origin.
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Social evolution.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Soziale Evolution
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Sprachentwicklung
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| Dewey Classification
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303.4
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GN281.D58 2011eb
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