Cultural evolution conceptual challenges

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Tim Lewens explores what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why this approach is often treated with suspicion. He makes an original case for the value of evolutionary thinking for students of culture, and shows why the concerns of sceptics should not dismissed as mere prejudice, confusion, or ignorance.



Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power of natural selection, many thinkers--typically working in biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology--have suggested it should be freed from the confines of biology, and applied to cultural change in humans and other animals. At the same time, others-typically with backgrounds in disciplines like social anthropology and history-have been just as vocal in dismissing the evolutionary approach to culture. What drives these disputes over Darwinism in the social sciences? While making a case for the value of evolutionary thinking for students of culture, Lewens shows why the concerns of sceptics should not dismissed as mere prejudice, confusion, or ignorance. Indeed, confusions about what evolutionary approaches entail are propagated by their proponents, as well as by their detractors. By taking seriously the problems faced by these approaches to culture, Lewens shows how such approaches can be better formulated, where their most significant limitations lie, and how the tools of cultural evolutionary thinking might become more widely accepted.

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Cultural Evolution

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Cultural evolution argues that people s values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure it was precarious for most of history which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity rejection of outsiders and obedience to strong leaders for under extreme scarcity xenophobi Uiterlijk 22 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

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insightful and breathtaking yuval noah harari author of sapiens bold and sweeping peter frankopan author of the silk roads profoundly thought provoking kate raworth author of doughnut economicshow our evolved psychology has shaped the past present and future of humanity each o Uiterlijk 15 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 augustus 2015

Aantal pagina's: 205

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Hoofdauteur: Tim Lewens

Hoofduitgeverij: Oxford University Press

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Product breedte: 138 mm

Product hoogte: 24 mm

Product lengte: 216 mm

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Verpakking breedte: 138 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 216 mm

Verpakking lengte: 24 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 434 g

EAN: 9780199674183

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