Cultural Transmission and Evolution (eBook)

A Quantitative Approach

L L Cavalli-sforza, Marcus Feldman (Autoren)

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2020
388 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20935-7 (ISBN)

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A number of scholars have found that concepts such as mutation, selection, and random drift, which emerged from the theory of biological evolution, may also explain evolutionary phenomena in other disciplines as well. Drawing on these concepts, Professors Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman classify and systematize the various modes of transmitting "e;culture"e; and explore their consequences for cultural evolution. In the process, they develop a mathematical theory of the non-genetic transmission of cultural traits that provides a framework for future investigations in quantitative social and anthropological science.The authors use quantitative models that incorporate the various modes of transmission (for example, parent-child, peer-peer, and teacher-student), and evaluate data from sociology, archaeology, and epidemiology in terms of the models. They show that the various modes of transmission in conjunction with cultural and natural selection produce various rates of cultural evolution and various degrees of diversity within and between groups. The same framework can be used for explaining phenomena as apparently unrelated as linguistics, epidemics, social values and customs, and diffusion of innovations. The authors conclude that cultural transmission is an essential factor in the study of cultural change.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: adaptiveness • Adaptive value • Additive model • Adoption • Adoptive parents • Allele • allopatric speciation • Amino Acid Substitution • Analogy • animal culture • Assortative Mating • awareness • Behavior • Behavioral modernity • Behavioural Sciences • between population variation • biparental transmission • birth order • birth process • Blending inheritance • Calculation • castes • Charles Darwin • Classical Conditioning • class, social • coefficient • collective behavior • copying • Correlation and dependence • correlation coefficient • Critical period • cross-cultural • Cross-cultural Studies • Cultural Anthropology • Cultural Evolution • Cultural migration • culture change • Darwinian fitness • Darwinism • Demographic Transition • directional cultural selection • disruptive selection • domestication • Drift • Epidemics • epidemiology • estimation • Ethology • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Explanation • fertility • Fitness (biology) • Fixation • Foster Parents • genetic drift • genetic variance • Genotype • Glottochronology • group selection • groups, variation between • Handbook • Hierarchical matrix • Hierarchies • Horizontal transmission • human behavior • idealization • Imprinting (psychology) • Inbreeding • inference • Innovation • Karl Pearson • Kuru • language • Language acquisition • language family • Latent Variable • linear regression • Linguistics • logarithm • Logarithmic scale • logistic • logistic function • Log-linear analysis • Longitudinal study • Lotka–Volterra equations • Markov Chain • Maternal effect • Mating type • Meiotic drive • Mendelian Inheritance • Migration • Mutation • mutation rate • Natural selection • organism • Parameter • parental contributions • Phenotype • Phenotypic trait • Polymorphism (biology) • Population Genetics • Population model • Population Size • Predictive Modelling • Probability • Proportion (architecture) • Rate of evolution • reductionism • Reinforcement • result • Sampling (Statistics) • Selection coefficient • Social classes • Sociobiology • Sociocultural evolution • Special case • stabilizing selection • Stochastic matrix • Stratification • Surname • Technology adoption life cycle • theory • Trait Theory • transcendental equation • transference • Transmission • uniparental transmission • Vertical transmission
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20935-9 / 0691209359
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20935-7 / 9780691209357