Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution

NOTE EDITORE

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Evolution, which has in recent years matured into an increasingly diverse and wide-reaching but intellectually coherent research programme. The book showcases the disciplinary spectrum of research into Cultural Evolution, from primatology and medieval literature to gene-culture co-evolution, computer science, anthropology, archaeology, and experimental psychology. The handbook consists of review essays contributed by leading experts in their areas, structured into ten sections covering key approaches and debates, major themes and “real-world” applications. Taken together, the essays offer an exceptionally broad and forward-looking perspective on the field for researchers across the cognitive and evolutionary social sciences, including those working in fields adjacent to Cultural Evolution, such as Behavioural Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Humanities. The handbook also provides a unique educational resource for students and teachers seeking to integrate Cultural Evolution into undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, as well as highlighting some of the potential applications of Cultural Evolution in fields such as education, public health, and environmental policy.

SOMMARIO

1 - The history of cultural evolution: reflections from leading figures in the field2 - Modelling cultural transmission3 - Modelling drift and selection in cultural evolution4 - Cultural systems5 - Experimental investigation of cultural evolution6 - Evolutionary neuroscience of cultural evolution7 - Evolutionary archaeology8 - Cross-Cultural Comparative Methods for Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses9 - Cultural attraction10 - Philosophy of cultural evolution11 - What is innovation?12 - What is social learning?13 - Teaching14 - What is cumulative cultural evolution?15 - When is social learning adaptive?16 - Conformist social learning17 - Prestige biased social learning18 - The cognitive foundations of culture19 - Life history of social learning tendencies in humans20 - Cultural variation in childhood social learning21 - Cultural Intelligence22 - What constitutes nonhuman culture and how is it studied?23 - Culture in the great apes24 - Culture in monkeys25 - Culture in cetaceans26 - Culture in mammals27 - Culture in birds28 - Culture in fish29 - Culture in insects30 - Cross species comparisons of human and nonhuman culture Approaches, discoveries, limitations, and future directions31 - Anthropogenic effects on animal cultures32 - Cultural transmission of technological skills33 - Tools and culture among early hominins34 - Lithic technological evolution35 - The Natural Evolution of Computing36 - Digital Culture37 - The Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Folk Narratives38 - Craft Traditions39 - Cultural Evolution and Music40 - Signalling and the Cultural Evolution of Art41 - Manuscript Traditions42 - Modern literature and film43 - Universal Cognitive Biases as the Basis for Supernatural Beliefs: Evidence and Critiques44 - The Cultural Evolution of Religion and Cooperation45 - The Cultural Macroevolution of Religion46 - The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity47 - Social learning and religion48 - The Cultural Evolution of Sociopolitical Organization: Examining how evolutionary processes acting at different scales have shaped history’s broadest patterns49 - Cultural evolution and the economic wealth of nations50 - The influence of migration on cultural evolution51 - Fertility transition52 - Ethnicity53 - The cultural evolution of language54 - Self-domestication and the evolution of language 55 - Language phylogenies56 - Evolution of writing scripts57 - Dialectics that sweep away ‘COWDUNG’: The Construction of Evolutionary, Cultural and Scientific Niches 58 - The cultural niche59 - Gene-culture coevolution in the cognitive domain 60 - Cultural evolution and diet61 - Ancient DNA and cultural evolution62 - Applied diffusion of innovations and interventions63 - Cultural Evolution and Population Health Interventions64 - Cultural evolution of ineffective medicine65 - Conspiracy theories66 - Environmental sustainability and climate change67 - Animal Conservation68 - Education69 - Public policy70 - Integroup relations71 - Cultural evolution of science

AUTORE

Jamshid Tehrani is an anthropologist specialising in the transmission and transformation of culture across generations. He trained in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and subsequently earned a Master's degree in Human Evolution and Behaviour from University College London. He completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2005 at UCL, focusing on the transmission of craft traditions among Iranian tribal groups. Tehrani joined Durham University in 2007, becoming a Chair in Anthropology in 2020 and serving as Head of Department from 2022 - 2025. His current research primarily investigates the dissemination of popular narratives, including folktales, urban legends, and conspiracy theories. Rachel Kendal is an evolutionary anthropologist specialising in cultural evolution. She trained in Zoology and Psychology at Nottingham University and completed a PhD in Zoology (2003) at Cambridge University, focusing on innovation and social learning in monkeys and fish. She joined Durham University in 2007, becoming Chair in 2020. Recently, she served as President of the Cultural Evolution Society and led the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Her current research concerns learning strategies across species, their potential contribution to the evolution of human, and non-human culture and their potential application to societal issues such as conservation and public health. Jeremy Kendal is an anthropologist specialising in cultural evolution. He trained in biology at the Nottingham University and subsequently earned a Master's degree in Biological Computation from the University of York. He completed his Ph.D. in Zoology in 2003 at Cambridge University, focusing on the adaptive value of social learning, combining mathematical modelling with experiments using guppy fish. Kendal joined Durham University in 2007. His current research concerns epistemology, memory, cultural transmission and disease emergence

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198869252
• Collana: Oxford Library of Psychology
• Dimensioni: 255 x 63.0 x 179 mm Ø 1885 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 1024