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Cultural Evolution


Cultural Evolution Books

The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
The Selfish Gene
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution
Culture and the Evolutionary Process
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
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Daniel C. Dennett
“ The manifest image that has been cobbled together by genetic evolutionary processes over billions of years, and by cultural evolutionary processes over thousands of years, is an extremely sophisticated system of helpful metaphorical renderings of the underlying reality uncovered in the scientific image. It is a user-illusion that we are so adept at using that we take it to be unvarnished reality, when in fact it has many coats of intervening interpretive varnish on it. ”
― Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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Daniel C. Dennett
“ Quantity isnt to be equated with quality, but success in propagation is, in the end, as necessary for memes (however excellent) as it is for organisms. Most organisms leave no issue, and most published books have readerships in the dozens, not thousands, before going out of print for good. Even the greatest works of genius must still pass the test of differential replication. ”
― Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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