By Roy Ellen,Stephen J. Lycett,Sarah E. Johns,R. F. Ellen

ISBN-10: 0857459937

ISBN-13: 9780857459930

ISBN-10: 178238071X

ISBN-13: 9781782380719

The proposal of "cultural transmission" is imperative to a lot modern anthropological idea, considering the fact that profitable human replica via social platforms is key for potent survival and for reinforcing the adaptiveness of person people and native populations. but, what's understood through the word and the way it could possibly top be studied is very contested. This publication brings jointly contributions that mirror the present variety of ways - from the fields of biology, primatology, palaeoanthropology, psychology, social anthropology, ethnobiology, and archaeology - to check social and cultural transmission from a number of views and at diversified scales of generalization. the excellent advent explores many of the difficulties and connections. total, the ebook presents a well timed synthesis of present bills of cultural transmission when it comes to cognitive strategy, sensible motion, and native socio-ecological context, whereas linking those with motives of longer-term evolutionary trajectories.

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