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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,308 ratings — published 2015
Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.95 — 115 ratings — published 2011
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.93 — 317 ratings — published 2004
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,664 ratings — published 2020
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,545 ratings — published 1976
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.75 — 184 ratings — published
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 298 ratings — published 1999
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,325,435 ratings — published 2011
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.62 — 190 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,052 ratings — published 1997
Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.84 — 25 ratings — published
Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2015
ORIGINS OF UNFAIRNESS:SOCIAL CATEGORIES & CULTURAL EVOLUTION (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.00 — 47 ratings — published
Culture and the Evolutionary Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 38 ratings — published 1985
How Traditions Live and Die (Foundations of Human Interaction)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 2015
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 161 ratings — published 2017
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.89 — 407 ratings — published
The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 44 ratings — published 2004
Cultural Selection (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.96 — 375 ratings — published
Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,322 ratings — published 2007
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.86 — 196 ratings — published 2021
A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 312 ratings — published
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 274 ratings — published 2018
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,785 ratings — published 2018
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,814 ratings — published 2017
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,707 ratings — published 2021
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.77 — 105 ratings — published 2011
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.68 — 339 ratings — published 2015
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.97 — 459 ratings — published 2011
Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution (The Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.30 — 100 ratings — published 2003
Evolution and the Levels of Selection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.90 — 51 ratings — published 2006
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 534,897 ratings — published 2006
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 17,194 ratings — published 1995
On Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,681 ratings — published 1978
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,796 ratings — published 1975
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.86 — 45,384 ratings — published 2020
Why Do Men Barbecue?: Recipes for Cultural Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.62 — 47 ratings — published 2003
The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published
Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion (Strüngmann Forum Reports)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.90 — 10 ratings — published 2013
Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens: Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 295 ratings — published 2012
The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.68 — 50 ratings — published 2013
A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.95 — 60 ratings — published
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.45 — 1,051 ratings — published 2017
Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.90 — 50 ratings — published
The Evolution of Culture: A Historical and Scientific Overview (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.83 — 24 ratings — published 1999
Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution (Oxford Library of Psychology)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.92 — 49 ratings — published 2003
Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 17 ratings — published
“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.”
― From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
― From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
“Ever increasing human knowledge is the ultimate cause of the development of human societies from hunter gathering to agrarian to industrial societies. However as human societies change from one form to another, there are substantial changes in the social and cultural institutions of those societies. The different types of societies tend to develop with different population structures, class systems, belief systems, government and legal systems, and different types of economies. The changes to these social and cultural systems are dependent on the prior changes to technological systems and so occur in a particular order as the technological changes occur in a particular order.”
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