Beyond the meme : : development and structure in cultural evolution / / Alan C. Love and William C. Wimsatt, editors.

• Author: Love, Alan C.
• TeilnehmendeR: Love, Alan C.,; Wimsatt, William C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Minneapolis ;, London : : University of Minnesota Press,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (543 pages).

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Explaining Cultural Evolution: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor -- 1. Articulating Babel: A Conceptual Geography for Cultural Evolution -- 2. Scientific Agency and Social Scaffolding in Contemporary Data-Intensive Biology -- 3. Creating Cognitive-Cultural Scaffolding in Interdisciplinary Research Laboratories -- 4. Arches and Scaffolds: Bridging Continuity and Discontinuity in Theory -- 5. Promiscuous Inventions: Modeling Cultural Evolution with Multiple Inheritance -- 6. Patented Technology as a Model System for Cultural Evolution -- 7. Modeling the Coevolution of Religion and Coordination in Balinese Rice Farming -- 8. Content Matters: The Materiality of Cultural Transmission and the Intersection of Paleolithic Archaeology with Cultural Evolutionary Theory -- 9. The Evolution of Language as Technology: The Cultural Dimension -- 10. Writing in Early Mesopotamia: The Historical Interplay of Technology, Cognition, and Environment -- 11. Cultural Scaffolding and Technological Change: A Preliminary Framework -- 12. The Evolution of the Social Self: Multidimensionality of Social Identity Solves the Coordination Problems of a Society -- 13. Wicked Systems and the Friction between "Old Theory and New Data" in Biology, Social Science, and Archaeology -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.