The Evolution of Cultural Diversity
A Phylogenetic Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19924879 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Ruth Mace, Clare J Holden, Stephen Shennan |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 301 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Evolution of Cultural Diversity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315418612 |
| OpenAlex | W1515743081 |
| Open Library | OL33615673M |
| ISBN | 9781315418612 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 127 |
Book description: Virtually all aspects of human behaviour show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organisation and language. Thousands of distinct cultural groups exist: about 6,000 languages are spoken today, and it is thought that a far greater number of languages existed in the past but became extinct. Using a Darwinian approach, this book seeks to explain this rich cultural variation. There are a number of theoretical reasons to believe that cultural diversification might be tree-like, that is phylogenetic: material and non-material culture is clearly inherited by descendants, there is descent with modification, and languages appear to be hierarchically related. There are also a number of theoretical reasons to believe that cultural evolution is not tree-like: cultural inheritance is not Mendelian and can indeed be vertical, horizontal or oblique, evidence of borrowing abounds, cultures are not necessarily biological populations and can be transient and complex. Here, for the first time, this title tackles these questions of cultural evolution empirically and quantitatively, using a range of case studies from Africa, the Pacific, Europe, Asia and America. A range of powerful theoretical tools developed in evolutionary biology are used to test detailed hypotheses about historical patterns and adaptive functions in cultural evolution. Evidence is amassed from archaeological, linguist and cultural datasets, from both recent and historical or pre-historical time periods. A unifying theme is that the phylogenetic approach is a useful and powerful framework, both for describing the evolutionary history of these traits, and also for testing adaptive hypotheses about their evolution and co-evolution. Contributors include archaeologists, anthropologists, evolutionary biologists and linguists, and this book will be of great interest to all those involved in these areas
Biology · Diversity (politics) · Evolutionary biology · Geography · Sociology · Anthropology · Language and cultural evolution · Multiculturalism · Phylogeny · Social evolution
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Design Space Constraints and the Cultural Taxonomy of European Final Palaeolithic Large Tanged Points
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Tutorial on Computational Linguistic Phylogeny
Automated methods for the investigation of language contact, with a focus on lexical borrowing
Towards a New Paradigm? The Third Science Revolution and its Possible Consequences in Archaeology
Evolution and Material Culture
Stimulated Variation and Cascades
Design Space and Cultural Transmission
Does Climate or Mobility Explain the Differences in Body Proportions Between Neandertals and Their Upper Paleolithic Successors
Archaeology and Epigraphy in the Digital Era
Cultural Macroevolution on Neighbor Graphs
Semantic systems in closely related languages
Phenetics, cladistics, and the search for the Alaskan ancestors of the Paleoindians
The spread of Neolithic plant economies from the Near East to northwest Europe
Mobility and kinship in the prehistoric Sahara
Why is there a lack of Mode 3 Levallois technologies in East Asia? A phylogenetic test of the Movius-Schick hypothesis
Investigating the peopling of North America through cladistic analyses of Early Paleoindian projectile points
Diversity in hunter–gatherer technological traditions
Human sex ratio at birth, HIV/Aids and tuberculosis
Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics
Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan
A new approach to exploratory data analysis in hominin phylogenetic reconstruction
Are Victoria West cores "proto-Levallois"? A phylogenetic assessment
Cladistic analyses of behavioural variation in wild Pan troglodytes
Update to Holden and Mace's “Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Lactose Digestion in Adults” (1997)
Introduction; Integrating Genetic and Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Language
Reconstructing the History of Marriage Strategies in Indo-European—Speaking Societies
A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Austronesian Sibling Terminologies
Biocultural Emergence of the Amazigh (Berbers) in Africa
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The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language
Niche Construction, Macroevolution, and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Near East
Evolution and Language
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Australian archaeolinguistics
Evolution of the Slate Tool Industry at Bridge River, British Columbia
Sino-Tibetan archaeolinguistics
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Shifting diets and the rise of male-biased inequality on the Central Plains of China during Eastern Zhou
Branching, blending, and the evolution of cultural similarities and differences among human populations
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Evolutionary History of Hunter-Gatherer Marriage Practices
Reconstructing the History of Residence Strategies in Indo-European—Speaking Societies
Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis
La formation de géodiversité et l’habitation durable de la Terre
Kinship and Marriage, Overview of
Kinship (Human), Evolutionary and Biosocial Approaches to
Mapping the field of cultural evolutionary theory and methods in archaeology using bibliometric methods
Rethinking Polynesians origins
Evolution of Polynesian bark cloth and factors influencing cultural change
Phylogenetic analysis of Polynesian ritual architecture suggests extensive cultural sharing and innovation
Gender, Technology, and Evolution
Size Dependence in Assemblage Measures
Classification and Evolution in Biology, Linguistics and the History of Science
Kinship Systems
The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
Cultural Traits and Multidisciplinary Dialogue
Lithic Variability and Cultures in the East African Middle Stone Age
The Native Languages of South America
Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution
An Analysis of Arrow and String Bag Craft Variability in the Upper Sepik and Central New Guinea
Kultura a tradice
Clovis Colonization of Eastern North America
Save the trees
Biosocial archaeology of the Early Neolithic
Exploring Spatial Relationships between Material Culture and Language in the Upper Sepik and Central New Guinea
Cultural macroevolution in the middle to late Holocene Arctic of east Siberia and north America
Relationships between String Bag Craft Distributions, Language and Geographical Distance in the Upper Sepik and Border Mountains of Papua New Guinea
Insights From Evolutionary Anthropology on the (Pre)history of the Nuclear Family
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Technology, Learning, and Innovation in Textile Arts
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Evidences of branching and blending phenomena in the pottery decoration during the dispersal of the Early Neolithic across Western Europe
Enigmatic Cranial Superstructures among Chamorro Ancestors from the Mariana Islands
Arqueología evolutiva y filogenética cultural
Zhoukoudian Upper Cave personal ornaments and ochre
Modeling the Evolution of Ceramic Traditions Through a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Chaînes Opératoires
Sociological landscape and evolutionary phenomena
The cultural macroevolution of lithic technological strategies in Northern and Western North America during the upper Pleistocene and Holocene
The evolution of anthropomorphism in the neolithic engraved plaques of Southwestern Iberian Peninsula
Cultural Evolution Branches Out
Introduction
Why so many Agta boys? Explaining ‘extreme’ sex ratios in Philippine foragers
Children and innovation
Contact and phylogeny in Island Melanesia
Genetic Dendrograms and Malaysian Population History
The Evolution of Cultural Diversity
Evolutionary Linguistics
Peopling of the Pacific
Middle to Late Holocene Paleoclimatic Change and the Early Bantu Expansion in the Rain Forests of Western Central Africa
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 100 |
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| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 1920 - 2025 (106) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 88 |