Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges

by Tim Lewens

Book Overview

Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power of natural selection, many thinkers--typically working in biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology--have suggested it should be freed from the confines of biology, and applied to cultural change in humans and other animals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199674183
• ISBN13: 9780199674183
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"