Aknowledgments......Page 6
Introduction......Page 12
PART 1 The Evolution of Social Learning......Page 22
Social Learning as an Adaptation......Page 28
Why Does Culture Increase Human Adaptability?......Page 44
Why Culture Is Common, but Cultural Evolution Is Rare......Page 61
Climate, Culture, and the Evolution of Cognition......Page 75
Norms and Bounded Rationality......Page 92
PART 2 Etnic Groups and Markers......Page 108
The Evolution of Ethnic Markers......Page 112
Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers......Page 127
PART 3 Human Cooperation, Reciprocity, and Group Selection......Page 142
The Evolution of Reciprocity in Sizable Groups......Page 154
Punishment Allows the Evolution of Cooperation......Page 175
Why People Punish Defectors:......Page 198
Can Group-Functional Behaviors Evolve by Cultural GroupSelection?......Page 213
Group-Beneficial Norms Can Spread Rapidly in a StructuredPopulation......Page 236
The Evolution of Altruistic Punishment......Page 250
Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation......Page 260
PART 4 Archaeology and Culture History......Page 292
How Microevolutionary Processes Give Rise to History......Page 296
Are Cultural Phylogenies Possible?......Page 319
Was Agriculture Impossible during the Pleistocene but Mandatoryduring the Holocene?......Page 346
PART 5 Links to Other Disciplines......Page 384
Rationality, Imitation, and Tradition......Page 388
Simple Models of Complex Phenomena......Page 406
Memes: Universal Acid or a Better Mousetrap?......Page 429
Author Index......Page 446
Subject Index......Page 455
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