Darwinian Archaeologies
Just over 20 years ago the publication of two books indicated the reemergence of Darwinian ideas on the public stage. E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis and Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, spelt out and developed the implications of ideas that had been quietly revolutionizin...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1996, 1996
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1996 |
| Series: | Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I • Introduction
- 1 • Darwinian Archaeologies: An Introductory Essay
- II • Cultural and Behavioral Selection
- 2 • The Historical Development of an Evolutionary Archaeology: A Selectionist Approach
- 3 • Explaining the Change from Biface to Flake Technology: A Selectionist Application
- 4 • Cultural Virus Theory and the Eusocial Pottery Assemblage
- 5 • Organized Dissonance: Multiple Code Structures in the Replication of Human Culture
- III • Paths to Revisionism in Cultural-Behavioral Selection: Individuals and Dual Inheritance
- 6 • Kin Selection and the Origins of Hereditary Social Inequality: A Case Study from the Northern Northwest Coast
- 7 • Archaeology, Style, and the Theory of Coevolution
- 8 • Style, Function, and Cultural Evolutionary Processes
- 9 • In Search of the Watchmaker: Attribution of Agency in Natural and Cultural Selection
- IV • Cognition and the Evolution of Mental Adaptations
- 10 • Weak Modularity and the Evolution of Human Social Behavior
- 11 • The Origin of Art: Natural Signs, Mental Modularity, and Visual Symbolism
- V • Overview
- 12 • The State of Evolutionary Archaeology: Evolutionary Correctness, or the Search for the Common Ground