Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 July 2025
- ISBN 9780198869252
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1024 pages
- Size 255x179x63 mm
- Weight 1885 g
- Language English 768
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Short description:
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.
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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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The history of cultural evolution: reflections from leading figures in the field
Approaches to Cultural Evolution
Modelling cultural transmission
Modelling drift and selection in cultural evolution
Cultural systems
Experimental investigation of cultural evolution
Evolutionary neuroscience of cultural evolution
Evolutionary archaeology
Cross-Cultural Comparative Methods for Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses
Cultural attraction
Philosophy of cultural evolution
Innovation & social Learning: the foundations of cultural evolution
What is innovation?
What is social learning?
Teaching
What is cumulative cultural evolution?
When is social learning adaptive?
Conformist social learning
Prestige biased social learning
The cognitive foundations of culture
Life history of social learning tendencies in humans
Cultural variation in childhood social learning
Cultural Intelligence
Animal Cultures
What constitutes nonhuman culture and how is it studied?
Culture in the great apes
Culture in monkeys
Culture in cetaceans
Culture in mammals
Culture in birds
Culture in fish
Culture in insects
Cross species comparisons of human and nonhuman culture Approaches, discoveries, limitations, and future directions
Anthropogenic effects on animal cultures
Technology
Cultural transmission of technological skills
Tools and culture among early hominins
Lithic technological evolution
The Natural Evolution of Computing
Digital Culture
Arts and Literature
The Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Folk Narratives
Craft Traditions
Cultural Evolution and Music
Signalling and the Cultural Evolution of Art
Manuscript Traditions
Modern literature and film
Religion
Universal Cognitive Biases as the Basis for Supernatural Beliefs: Evidence and Critiques
The Cultural Evolution of Religion and Cooperation
The Cultural Macroevolution of Religion
The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity
Social learning and religion
Sociality
The Cultural Evolution of Sociopolitical Organization: Examining how evolutionary processes acting at different scales have shaped history?s broadest patterns
Cultural evolution and the economic wealth of nations
The influence of migration on cultural evolution
Fertility transition
Ethnicity
Language and Communication
The cultural evolution of language
Self-domestication and the evolution of language
