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This text presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture.

Social evolution. --- Culture --- Human evolution. --- Sociobiology. --- Biologism --- Human biology --- Human evolution --- Psychology, Comparative --- Social evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Origin of culture --- Civilization --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Evolution --- Social change --- Origin. --- Social aspects --- Origin --- History

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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.

Linguistics --- Philosophy of nature --- Human beings --- Human evolution. --- Language and languages --- Social evolution. --- Origin. --- Antiquity of human beings --- Origin of human beings --- Human evolution --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Social change --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Origin --- Communication. --- Material culture. --- Social interaction. --- Origin of culture --- Civilization --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Folklore --- Technology --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- History --- humanities --- evolution --- language [general communication] --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- cultuurfilosofie