By Roy Ellen,Stephen J. Lycett,Sarah E. Johns,R. F. Ellen
The thought of "cultural transmission" is crucial to a lot modern anthropological conception, considering profitable human replica via social structures is key for potent survival and for reinforcing the adaptiveness of person people and native populations. but, what's understood through the word and the way it might probably most sensible be studied is very contested. This booklet brings jointly contributions that mirror the present variety of methods - from the fields of biology, primatology, palaeoanthropology, psychology, social anthropology, ethnobiology, and archaeology - to check social and cultural transmission from various views and at diversified scales of generalization. the excellent creation explores many of the difficulties and connections. total, the e-book presents a well timed synthesis of present debts of cultural transmission in terms of cognitive strategy, sensible motion, and native socio-ecological context, whereas linking those with causes of longer-term evolutionary trajectories.
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