Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture And Synthesize The Social Sciences

Covering a range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, this title shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. It focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically.

• | By (Author): Alex Mesoudi
• | Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2011
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0226520447
• | ISBN-13: 9780226520445