Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Mesoudi, Alex (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Aoki, Kenichi (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Experimental Studies of Cumulative Culture in Modern Humans: What are the Requirements of the Ratchet
• Factors Limiting the Number of Independent Cultural Traits That Can Be Maintained in a Population
• Inferring Learning Strategies from Cultural Frequency Data
• The Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans and the Diversity in Cultural Transition Patterns: a Theoretical Perspective
• Simulating Geographical Variation in Material Culture: Were Early Modern Humans in Europe Ethnically Structured?
• “Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ‘Model Organism’
• Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model
• Evolution of Culturally Transmitted Teaching Behavior
• Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic
• Mobility and Cultural Diversity in Central-Place Foragers: Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Behavior.