Cultural Evolution


The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
The Selfish Gene
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution
Culture and the Evolutionary Process
How Traditions Live and Die (Foundations of Human Interaction)
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
American Freethinker by Kirsten FischerJourney to the West by Biao  WangThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiFemales of Valor by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
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Ken Binmore
A fair social contract is then taken to be an equilibrium in the game of life that calls for the use of strategies which, if used in the game of morals, would never leave a player with an incentive to exercise his right of appeal to the device of the original position. So a fair social contract is an equilibrium in the game of morals, but it must never be forgotten that it is also an equilibrium in the game of life; otherwise evolution will sweep it away. Indeed, the game of morals is nothing mo ...more
Ken Binmore, Natural Justice

Rochelle Forrester
Changes in human knowledge causes changes in technology and through the effect that technology has on the social and cultural systems of a society, the change in human knowledge will affect all elements in that society. Changes in human knowledge may also directly affect the social and cultural systems in human society. Ideas such as biological evolution and cultural relativity have affected human society, without producing any technological innovations. Human history in all its elements will be ...more
Rochelle Forrester

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