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How the origin and development of culture interacts with biological evolution.
How culture makes human evolution a special process.
How culture makes human evolution a special process.
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
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Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
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A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species
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Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences
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Culture and the Evolutionary Process
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Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
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Why We Cooperate (Boston Review Books)
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Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
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Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind
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The Ape That Spoke: How the Human Mind Evolved (Picador Books)
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The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique
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Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behavior
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion
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Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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The Meme Machine
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
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The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
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Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind
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The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment
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How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
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A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human
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Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour
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Cultural Selection
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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God Is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human
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The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
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Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next?
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Cultural Evolution: People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World
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Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
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Children of the Ice: Climate and Human Origins
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The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
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A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity
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Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind
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Social Anthropology and Human Origins
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The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution
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How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies (Key Questions in Anthropology) (Volume 3)
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Culture and the Course of Human Evolution
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A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
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The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution
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How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
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From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language
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The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
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Cultural Evolution
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Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
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Cultural Evolution: The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape (Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences)
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On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
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The Domestication of Language: Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal
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Evolutionary Ideas: Unlocking ancient innovation to solve tomorrow’s challenges
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Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age
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Individual-Based Models of Cultural Evolution: A Step-by-Step Guide Using R
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Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach
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How Traditions Live and Die
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Qualitative Darwinism: An evolutionary history of witch-hunting
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Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution: Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory
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Handbook of Cultural Psychology
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Dov Cohen (Editor)
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Cultural Psychology
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The Biology of Art
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Cultural Evolution and Its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure
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Cultural Psychology: Exploring Culture and Mind in Diverse Communities
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Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach
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Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution
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A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
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Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics
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Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion
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Minds of Gods, The: New Horizons in the Naturalistic Study of Religion
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The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume I
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The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
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Mixed Messages: Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society
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The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life
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Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species
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Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution
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