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Cultural Evolution Books

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
The Selfish Gene
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
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
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution
Culture and the Evolutionary Process
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
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Quotes Tagged “Cultural Evolution”

Rochelle Forrester
“ all societies have certain needs or desires and they meet these needs by utilizing the resources in their environments. The ability to utilize those resources changes as their knowledge of their environment changes. In particular they develop knowledge of the properties of the resources in their environment and how the resources in their environment can be used to meet human needs and desires. Human knowledge of the resources is dynamic; it changes over time. Greater knowledge of the properties ...more ”
― Rochelle Forrester, How Change Happens: A Theory of Philosophy of History, Social Change and Cultural Evolution
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Daniel C. Dennett
“ The claim that I defend is that human culture started out profoundly Darwinian, with uncomprehending competences yielding various valuable structures in roughly the way termites build their castles, and then gradually de-Darwinized, becoming ever more efficient in its ways of searching Design Space. In short, as human culture evolved, it fed on the fruits of its own evolution, increasing its design powers by utilizing information in ever more powerful ways. ”
― Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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