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Cultural Evolution Distin Paperback Cambridge University Press 9780521189712

Cultural Evolution

Expounds a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the development of human culture.

Kate Distin (Author)

9780521189712, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 May 2010

282 pages

22.8 x 15.5 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

'In The Selfish Meme, Kate Distin brought conceptual clarity to a term that had been overly complicated. The advantages of the term 'meme' had been obscured - sometimes by the term's champions, but more often by those with pretheoretical agendas that made them hostile to the aspects of cognition (human irrationality) that the term highlighted. In The Selfish Meme, Distin restored the term's usefulness. In Cultural Evolution, Distin has a larger goal in mind - nothing less than a full-blown theory of the development of human knowledge. Given the Promethean goal of the book, it is remarkable how much the volume succeeds. Using various tools of modern cognitive science - from knowledge of t]

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Cultural Evolution

Expounds a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the development of human culture.

Kate Distin (Author)

9780521189712, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 May 2010

282 pages

22.8 x 15.5 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

'In The Selfish Meme, Kate Distin brought conceptual clarity to a term that had been overly complicated. The advantages of the term 'meme' had been obscured - sometimes by the term's champions, but more often by those with pretheoretical agendas that made them hostile to the aspects of cognition (human irrationality) that the term highlighted. In The Selfish Meme, Distin restored the term's usefulness. In Cultural Evolution, Distin has a larger goal in mind - nothing less than a full-blown theory of the development of human knowledge. Given the Promethean goal of the book, it is remarkable how much the volume succeeds. Using various tools of modern cognitive science - from knowledge of t]

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Cultural Evolution

Expounds a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the development of human culture.

Kate Distin (Author)

9780521189712, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 May 2010

282 pages

22.8 x 15.5 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

'In The Selfish Meme, Kate Distin brought conceptual clarity to a term that had been overly complicated. The advantages of the term 'meme' had been obscured - sometimes by the term's champions, but more often by those with pretheoretical agendas that made them hostile to the aspects of cognition (human irrationality) that the term highlighted. In The Selfish Meme, Distin restored the term's usefulness. In Cultural Evolution, Distin has a larger goal in mind - nothing less than a full-blown theory of the development of human knowledge. Given the Promethean goal of the book, it is remarkable how much the volume succeeds. Using various tools of modern cognitive science - from knowledge of t]

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