CULTURAL EVOLUTION: CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES torrent

Author: Tim Lewens
Edition: Reprint edition
Publication Date: October 1, 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 019880119X
ISBN-13: 978-0198801191
Pages: 224 pages
Format: pdf
Size: 1.1M

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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. At the same time, others-typically with backgrounds in disciplines like social anthropology and history-have been just as vocal in dismissing the evolutionary approach to culture. What drives these disputes over Darwinism in the social sciences?

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