Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mesoudi, Alex (Editor), Aoki, Kenichi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Evolutionary biology.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Evolutionary Biology.

This volume is motivated by the desire to explain why Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of cultural differences between the two (sub-)species. It provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural evolution as is being used by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, and...