The Emergence of Culture

The Emergence of Culture
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9780387306742
ISBN-13 : 0387306749
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Book Synopsis The Emergence of Culture by : Philip Chase

Download or read book The Emergence of Culture written by Philip Chase and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the emergent nature of human culture, based on the human ability to create and pass on social codes through instruction and example. It proposes hypotheses to explain how a phenomenon that is potentially maladaptive for individuals could have evolved, and to explain why culture plays such a pervasive role in human life. It then reviews the primatological, fossil, and archaeological data to test these hypotheses.


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