9780521189712 - Cultural Evolution von Distin, Kate (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 282 3 Illus.

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Paperback. Zustand: Gut. 272 p. Broschur leicht angestoßen und Buchschnitt minimal befleckt, sonst ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar / Paperback slightly bumped and book edges minimally stained, otherwise a very good and clean copy. - 1. Introduction: Small Consequences of One General Law PART I. THE INHERITANCE OF CULTURAL INFORMA HON 2. What Is Information? y How Is Information Inherited? PART II. THE INHERITANCE OF CULTURAL INFORMATION: NATURAL LANGUAGE 4. Natural Language and Culture: The Biological Building Blocks 5. How Did Natural Language Evolve? 6. Language, Thought and Culture PART III. THE INHERITANCE OF CULTURAL INFORMATION: ARTEFACTUAL LANGUAGE 7. How Did Artefactual Language Evolve? 8. Artefactual Language, Representation and Culture 9. Money: An Artefactual Language 10. Money: The Explanatory Power of Artefactual Languages PART IV. THE RECEIVERS OF CULTURAL INFORMATION 11. How Does Human Diversity Affect Cultural Evolution? PARTV. THE EXPRESSION OF CULTURAL INFORMATION 12. Aspects of the Cultural Ecology 13. Patterns of Cultural Taxonomy 14. Conclusion: A Representational Understanding of Cultural Evolution Appendix: What about Memetics? ISBN 9780521189712 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 417.

Zustand: New. Expounds a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the development of human culture. Num Pages: 282 pages, 3 b/w illus. BIC Classification: CFD; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 42. . 2010. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this book, Kate Distin proposes a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the origin and development of human culture. Distin introduces the concept that humans share information not only in natural languages, which are spoken or signed, but also in artefactual languages like writing and musical notation, which use media that are made by humans. Languages enable humans to receive and transmit variations in cultural information and resources. In this way, they provide the mechanism for cultural evolution. The human capacity for metarepresentation - thinking about how we think - accelerates cultural evolution, because it frees cultural information from the conceptual limitations of each individual language. Distin shows how the concept of cultural evolution outlined in this book can help us to understand the complexity and diversity of human culture, relating her theory to a range of subjects including economics, linguistics, and developmental biology.