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Cultural Evolution Books
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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 14 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,220 ratings — published 2015
Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.96 — 111 ratings — published 2011
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 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 6 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,369 ratings — published 2020
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,797 ratings — published 1976
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.75 — 183 ratings — published
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 290 ratings — published 1999
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,276,828 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 3.60 — 185 ratings — published 2012
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.00 — 46 ratings — published
Culture and the Evolutionary Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.03 — 37 ratings — published 1985
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 397 ratings — published
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 460,980 ratings — published 1997
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.96 — 372 ratings — published
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.87 — 190 ratings — published 2021
Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 23 ratings — published
Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2015
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 3.89 — 296 ratings — published
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 272 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 4.24 — 1,684 ratings — published 2018
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,832 ratings — published 2021
How Traditions Live and Die (Foundations of Human Interaction)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 2015
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.76 — 103 ratings — published 2011
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 161 ratings — published 2017
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 3.69 — 335 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 — 451 ratings — published 2011
Het oerboek van de mens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.20 — 398 ratings — published 2016
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,332 ratings — published 2016
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,308 ratings — published 2013
Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2015
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Virus of the Mind (09) by Brodie, Richard [Hardcover (2009)]
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
SUMMARY: Not Born Yesterday (UNOFFICIAL SUMMARY: Lesson from Hugo Mercier)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Meme Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,261 ratings — published 1999
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,645 ratings — published 2017
Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published
Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,833 ratings — published 2020
A Natural History of Human Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.99 — 207 ratings — published 2014
Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 20 ratings — published
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,200 ratings — published 1974
Social Learning In Animals: The Roots of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1996
The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 2.88 — 17 ratings — published 1949
Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, And The Rise Of Humanity (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.42 — 562 ratings — published
The Terraformers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.33 — 7,436 ratings — published 2023
Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation (Evolution and Cognition)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 28 ratings — published 2006
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,111 ratings — published 2012
How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,865 ratings — published 2018
Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,252 ratings — published 2007
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,444 ratings — published 2018
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,485 ratings — published 2019
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 1,244 ratings — published 2025
“The Absolute Ignorance of evolution by natural selection is indeed capable of creating not just daisies and fish but also human beings who in turn have the competence to build cities and theories and poems and airplanes, and computers, which in turn could in principle achieve Artificial Intelligence with even higher levels of creative skill than their human creators.”
― From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
― From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
“[E]ach culture is just like a tree whose essence and whole potential are already contained in the seed. Nothing during the course of a civilization is ever discovered, or invented, or created, which was not already present inside that seed.”
― A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World
― A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World
