Peter J. Richerson

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Peter J. Richerson



Average rating: 3.98 · 504 ratings · 49 reviews · 11 distinct worksSimilar authors
Not by Genes Alone: How Cul...

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A Story of Us: A New Look a...

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The Origin and Evolution of...

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Culture and the Evolutionar...

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Evolution's Empress: Darwin...

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Cultural Evolution: Society...

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Evolucija društvenosti

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Human ecology: An environme...

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Human by Nature: Between Bi...

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“Culture is (mostly) information stored in human brains, and gets transmitted from brain to brain by way of a variety of social learning processes.”
Peter J. Richerson, Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

“The key is to focus on the details of individual lives. Kids imitate one another, their parents, and other adults, and both children and adults are taught by others. As children grow up they acquire cultural influences, skills, beliefs, and”
Peter J. Richerson, Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

“biologists would call the proximate causes of human variation-that is, we have been talking about its immediate causes rather than its long-run evolutionary causes. If”
Peter J. Richerson, Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

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