| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Vienna series in theoretical biology
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Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Issues in anthropological studies of innovation / Michael J. O'Brien and Stephen J. Shennan -- Innovation and invention from a logical point of view / André Ariew -- Comparative perspectives on human innovation / Kevin N. Laland and Simon M. Reader -- Organismal innovation / Jeffrey H. Schwartz -- Innovation, replicative behavior, and evolvability : contributions from neuroscience and human decision-making theory / Daniel O. Larson -- Innovation from evo-devo to human culture / Werner Callebaut -- The evolution of innovation-enhancing institutions / Joseph Henrich -- Fashion versus reason in the creative industries / R. Alexander Bentley -- Demography and variation in the accumulation of culturally inherited skills / Adam Powell, Stephen J. Shennan, and Mark G. Thomas -- Cultural traditions and the evolutionary advantages of noninnovation / Craig T. Palmer -- The experimental study of cultural innovation / Alex Mesoudi -- Social learning, economic inequality, and innovation diffusion / Anne Kandler and James Steele -- Technological innovations and developmental trajectories : social factors as evolutionary forces / Valentine Roux -- Can archaeologists study processes of invention? / Michael Brian Schiffer -- War, women, and religion : the spread of Salado polychrome in the American Southwest / Todd L. VanPool and Chet Savage. |
| Summary |
Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Physical anthropology.
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Physical anthropology. |
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Human evolution.
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Human evolution. |
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Social evolution.
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Social evolution. |
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Human beings -- Origin.
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Human beings -- Origin. |
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Technological innovations.
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Technological innovations. |
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Cultural Evolution. |
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Anthropology, Physical. |
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Diffusion of Innovation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
O'Brien, Michael J. (Michael John), 1950-
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Shennan, Stephen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Innovation in cultural systems. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010 9780262013338 (DLC) 2009009084 (OCoLC)316772110 |
| ISBN |
9780262259101 (electronic book) |
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0262259109 (electronic book) |
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9780262013338 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262013339 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1282694693 |
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9781282694699 |
| Standard No. |
9786612694691 |
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