TY  - BOOK
AU  - Distin,Kate
TI  - Cultural evolution
SN  - 9780521769013 :
AV  - GN281 .D58 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge [U.K.], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Social evolution
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
KW  - Human beings
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-261) and index; 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?
ER  -