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020			_a9780511779978 (ebook)
020			_z9780521769013 (hardback)
020			_z9780521189712 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aGN281 _b.D58 2011
082	0	0	_a303.4 _222
100	1		_aDistin, Kate, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCultural Evolution / _cKate Distin.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (282 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aIn this book, Kate Distin proposes a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the origin and development of human culture. Distin introduces the concept that humans share information not only in natural languages, which are spoken or signed, but also in artefactual languages like writing and musical notation, which use media that are made by humans. Languages enable humans to receive and transmit variations in cultural information and resources. In this way, they provide the mechanism for cultural evolution. The human capacity for metarepresentation - thinking about how we think - accelerates cultural evolution, because it frees cultural information from the conceptual limitations of each individual language. Distin shows how the concept of cultural evolution outlined in this book can help us to understand the complexity and diversity of human culture, relating her theory to a range of subjects including economics, linguistics, and developmental biology.
650		0	_aHuman evolution
650		0	_aSocial evolution
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521769013
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779978
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38436 _d38436