The Darwinian view of culture: Alex Mesoudi: Cultural evolution: how Darwinian theory can explain hu...
The Darwinian view of culture: Alex Mesoudi: Cultural evolution: how Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences. University of Chicago Press, 2011
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
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Alex Mesoudi’s book shows cultural evolution to be a mature field, which has already illuminated many instances of cultural change. Mesoudi’s presentation of the discipline nonetheless invites three objections. First, the culture concept it makes use of is not clearly defined; second, Mesoudi’s historical argument which looks back to the modern syn...
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The Darwinian view of culture: Alex Mesoudi: Cultural evolution: how Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences. University of Chicago Press, 2011
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1787977247
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0169-3867
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1572-8404
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10.1007/s10539-011-9306-y
