| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 341 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Origins of human behavior and culture ; 2
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Origins of human behavior and culture ; 2.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pattern and process in cultural evolution : an introduction / Stephen Shennan -- Understanding cultural transmission -- Placing archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution / Alex Mesoudi and Michael J. O'Brien -- Human communication as niche construction / Robert Aunger -- Modes of transmission and material culture patterns in craft skills / Robert Hosfield -- Linking pattern to process in cultural evolution : explaining material culture diversity among the northern Khanty of northwest Siberia / Peter Jordan -- Tangled trees : modeling material culture evolution as host-associate cospeciation / Felix Riede -- Evolution of material culture diversity among Iranian tribal populations / Jamshid J. Tehrani and Mark Collard -- Evolutionary explanation and the record of interest : using evolutionary archaeology and dual inheritance theory to explain the archaeological record / Ethan E. Cochrane -- Identifying iron production lineages : a case study in northwest Wales / Michael F. Charlton -- Testing evolutionary hypotheses -- Quantitative analysis of macroevolutionary patterning in technological evolution : bicycle design from 1800 to 2000 / Mark W. Lake and Jay Venti -- Innovation diffusion and traveling waves / James Steele -- Explaining global patterns in lower palaeolithic technology : simulations of hominin dispersal and cultural transmission using stepping out / Sam Smith, John Hughes, and Steven Mithen -- Population history and the evolution of mesolithic arrowhead technology in south Scandinavia / Kevan Edinborough -- Experimentation and innovation in the archaeological record : a case study in technological evolution from Kodiak, Alaska / Ben Fitzhugh and A. Kate Trusler -- Social evolution -- Mind the bonding gap : constraints on the evolution of hominin societies / R.I.M. Dunbar -- Testing functional hypotheses about cross-cultural variation : a maximum-likelihood comparative analysis of Indo-European marriage practices / Laura Fortunato and Ruth Mace -- Parent-offspring conflict in marriage : implications for social evolution and material culture among the Ju/'hoansi bushmen / Polly Wiessner -- Prestige goods and the formation of political hierarchy : a costly signaling model / Aimée M. Plourde -- Population and warfare : a test of the Turchin model in Pueblo societies / Timothy A. Kohler, Sarah Cole, and Stanca Ciupe -- An ecological model for the emergence of institutionalized social hierarchies on California's northern Channel Islands / Douglas J. Kennett [and others] -- Population, sociopolitical simplification, and cultural evolution of Levantine neolithic villages / Ian Kuijt. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human evolution.
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Human evolution. |
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Anthropology.
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Anthropology. |
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Human ecology.
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Human ecology. |
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Human beings -- Origin.
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Human beings -- Origin. |
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Archaeology.
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Archaeology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Shennan, Stephen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pattern and process in cultural evolution. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520255999 (DLC) 2008034389 (OCoLC)244246536 |
| ISBN |
9780520943360 (electronic book) |
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0520943368 (electronic book) |
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9780520255999 (Cloth) |
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0520255992 (Cloth) |
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1282360906 |
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9781282360907 |
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