The Nature of Culture Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Haidle, Miriam N. (Editor), Conard, Nicholas J. (Editor), Bolus, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Evolutionary biology.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Earth Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

This volume introduces a model of the expansion of cultural capacity as a systemic approach with biological, historical and individual dimensions. It is contrasted with existing approaches from primatology and behavioural ecology; influential factors like differences in life history and demography a...