This book explores the ways in which contemporary evolutionary thinking might inform the study of the peculiarly human phenomenon of symbolic culture, including language, ritual, religion, religion and art. It draws together contributions from biologists, linguists, anthropologists and archaeologists in order to establish common ground where collaboration and interaction will be especially productive and challenging in the study of those fundamental aspects of our biology that makes us human. * Multidisciplinary * An evolutionary approach to culture
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Fascinating ! there are many [other] excellent papers in this volume, more than room permits to discuss here. All are commendable contributions to the important re-emerging field of Darwinian cultural evolution. Fascinating ! there are many [other] excellent papers in this volume, more than room permits to discuss here. All are commendable contributions to the important re-emerging field of Darwinian cultural evolution.
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Robin Dunbar is Professor of Psychology, Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Chris Knight is Reader in Anthropology at the University of East London.
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female energetic costs, ochre record, outgroup males, human symbolic revolution, sham menstruation, imminent fertility, coalitionary strategies, courtship model, cognitive fluidity, referential symbolism, freerider problem, symbolic culture, ritual signals, human language faculty, female cooperation, female coalition, modern human origins, expensive tissue hypothesis, sexual selection theory, neocortex size, perceptible reality, symbolic behaviour, mating effort, male care, coalition time Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Current Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Howieson's Poort, Harvard University Press, Academic Press, Middle Stone Age, Middle Palaeolithic, University of Chicago Press, Australian Aborigines, Clarendon Press, Prisoner's Dilemma, Upper Pleistocene, Border Cave, Cambridge Archaeological, Princeton University Press, South African Archaeological Bulletin, Australian Aboriginal, Cape Town, Early Humans, Later Stone Age, Middle Pleistocene, University of California Press, Basil Blackwell New!
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female energetic costs, ochre record, outgroup males, human symbolic revolution, sham menstruation, imminent fertility, coalitionary strategies, courtship model, cognitive fluidity, referential symbolism, freerider problem, symbolic culture, ritual signals, human language faculty, female cooperation, female coalition, modern human origins, expensive tissue hypothesis, sexual selection theory, neocortex size, perceptible reality, symbolic behaviour, mating effort, male care, coalition time Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Current Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Howieson's Poort, Harvard University Press, Academic Press, Middle Stone Age, Middle Palaeolithic, University of Chicago Press, Australian Aborigines, Clarendon Press, Prisoner's Dilemma, Upper Pleistocene, Border Cave, Cambridge Archaeological, Princeton University Press, South African Archaeological Bulletin, Australian Aboriginal, Cape Town, Early Humans, Later Stone Age, Middle Pleistocene, University of California Press, Basil Blackwell New!
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- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim on 6 pages
- The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod on 5 pages
- Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases by James R. Hurford on 5 pages
- The Neanderthal Legacy by Paul Mellars on page 49, page 168, and Back Matter
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker on page 11, page 90, and Back Matter
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- The Genealogy of Aesthetics by Ekbert Faas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field (Teaching & Learning the Humanities in HE series) by Alison Phipps in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- One Planet, One People: Beyond "Us vs. Them" by Carl Coon on page 58, and page 69
- New Perspectives on Prehistoric Art by Gunter Berghaus in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective by Philip Clayton on page 169
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