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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 — 2,248 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 3.96 — 114 ratings — published 2011
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.93 — 315 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 — 4,494 ratings — published 2020
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.75 — 183 ratings — published
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,419 ratings — published 1976
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 294 ratings — published 1999
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,295,856 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 3.61 — 186 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,463 ratings — published 1997
Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 24 ratings — published
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution (Hardcover)
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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)
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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 3.90 — 402 ratings — published
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 — 373 ratings — published
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.87 — 194 ratings — published 2021
Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges (Hardcover)
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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)
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avg rating 3.89 — 303 ratings — published
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 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 4.23 — 1,725 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 — 3,769 ratings — published 2017
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,601 ratings — published 2021
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
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 — 336 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 — 454 ratings — published 2011
Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.86 — 296 ratings — published 2012
Cultural Evolution and Its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure (ebook)
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avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.73 — 49 ratings — published 2013
Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 101 ratings — published
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 3.44 — 1,027 ratings — published 2017
Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.81 — 26 ratings — published 1996
Culture Evolves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2012
Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 49 ratings — published
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.86 — 418 ratings — published 2002
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 — 11 ratings — published
The Evolution of God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,074 ratings — published 2009
Die Evolution der Gewalt: Warum wir Frieden wollen, aber Kriege führen. Eine Menschheitsgeschichte (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 87 ratings — published
Het oerboek van de mens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cultural-evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 402 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 3.80 — 4,353 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 — 3,324 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
“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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“The extension of minds into the world through the use of artifacts was perhaps the last vital step in the evolution of culture that underlies the modern mind. Written symbols, alphabets and number systems, are ways of using the world to hold ideas. These external symbols allow a society a capacity for systematic thinking that would be impossible otherwise, a process we have referred to earlier as progressive externalization. Indeed, these external devices are not just static devices for memory storage. We have built external devices that process information, mirroring the process of thought inside our heads, at least loosely. Consider numerical calculation. You are limited in the amount of numbers you can easily add in your head. A paper and pencil increase this ability tremendously by letting you manipulate external symbols and hold intermediate steps in the calculation. By using artifacts that themselves process symbols, such as a handheld calculator, however, you can dramatically extend the realm of thought.”
― Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are – Understanding Cultural Biology and the Ancient Systems Behind Our Humanity
― Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are – Understanding Cultural Biology and the Ancient Systems Behind Our Humanity
