Book ID: CBB315429681

Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges (2015)

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This title exposes and evaluates a set of conceptual disputes concerning what we might mean by culture, and how we should go about accounting for it. Its particular focus is a set of evolutionary approaches to the genesis of the human capacity for culture, to subsequent cultural change, and to the ways in which genetic and cultural change interact, or 'co-evolve'. The book as a whole argues that there is little realistic hope that the social sciences might become unified around an evolutionary synthesis. Instead the defence of evolutionary approaches to culture must be more modest in scope.

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Review Thomas C. Scott-Phillips (2016) Review of "Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 170-173). unapi

Review David Henderson (2016) Review of "Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 469-472). unapi

Review Lorenzo Baravalle (2018) Review of "Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges". Science and Education (pp. 225-231). unapi

Review Cecilia Heyes (2016) Review of "Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges". British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (pp. 1189-1193). unapi

Review Peter J. Richerson (2016) Review of "Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 15). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Haught, Brandon
McCreary, Tyler
Westbrook, Eric C.
Karnicky, Jeff
Zarimis, Maria
Yegge, John G.
Concepts
Evolution
Science and culture
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Controversies and disputes
Science and religion
Darwinism
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
Modern
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Greece
France
Europe
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