1st Edition
The Evolution of Cultural Diversity A Phylogenetic Approach
301 Pages
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Routledge
301 Pages
by
Routledge
301 Pages
by
Routledge
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Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Thousands of distinct cultural groups exist: about 6,000 languages are spoken today, and it is thought that a far greater number of languages existed in the past but became extinct. Using a Darwinian approach, this book seeks to... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, RuthMace; Part 1 Part I; Chapter 2 Introduction to Part i how Tree-Like is Cultural Evolution?, ClareJ Holden, ShennanStephen; Chapter 3 Testing Population Dispersal Hypotheses, J GreenhillSimon, D GrayRussell; Chapter 4 Comparison of Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Bantu Language Trees, J HoldenClare, MeadeAndrew, PagelMark; Chapter 5 Untangling Our Past, BryantDavid, FilimonFlavia, D GrayRussell; Chapter 6 Cultural Phylogenetic Hypotheses in Archaeology, J O’BrienMichael, LymanR Lee; Chapter 7 Phylogenesis Versus Ethnogenesis in Turkmen Cultural Evolution, CollardMark, TehraniJamshid; Chapter 8 Investigating Processes of Cultural Evolution on the North Coast of New Guinea With Multivariate and Cladistic Analyses, ShennanStephen, CollardMark; Chapter 9 Cultural Transmission in Indigenous California, JordanPeter, ShennanStephen; Part 2 Part II; Chapter 10 Introduction to Part II on The Use of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods to Test Co-Evolutionary Hypotheses Across Cultures, RuthMace; Chapter 11 The Evolution of Human Sex Ratio at Birth, RuthMace, FionaJordan; Chapter 12 ‘The Cow is the Enemy of Matriliny’, J HoldenClare, MaceRuth; Chapter 13 Bayesian Estimation of Correlated Evolution Across Cultures, PagelMark, Meade Andrew;
Biography
Ruth Mace, Clare J Holden, Stephen Shennan
