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

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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).
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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
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