The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition)

1: The Evolution Of Social Learning -- Social Learning And Adaptation -- Why Does Culture Increase Human Adaptability? -- Why Culture Is Common, But Cultural Evolution Is Rare -- Climate, Culture, And The Evolution Of Cognition -- Norms And Bounded Rationality -- 2: Ethnic Groups And Markers -- The Evolution Of Ethnic Markers -- Shared Norms And The Evolution Of Ethnic Markers / With Richard Mcelreath -- 3: Human Cooperation, Reciprocity, And Group Selection -- The Evolution Of Reciprocity In Sizable Groups -- Punishment Allows The Evolution Of Cooperation (or Anything Else) In Sizable Groups -- Why People Punish Defector: Weak Conformist Transmission Can Stabilize Costly Enforcement Of Norms In Cooperative Dilemmas / With Joseph Henrich -- Can Group-functional Behaviors Evolve By Cultural Group Selection? An Empirical Test / With Joseph Soltis -- Group-beneficial Norms Can Spread Rapidly In A Structured Population -- The Evolution Of Altruistic Punishment / With Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles -- Cultural Evolution Of Human Cooperation / With Joseph Henrich -- 4: Archaeology And Culture History -- How Microevolutionary Processes Give Rise To History -- Are Cultural Phylogenies Possible? / With Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, William H. Durham -- Was Agriculture Impossible During The Pleistocene But Mandatory During The Holocene? A Climate Change Hypothesis / With Robert L. Bettinger -- 5: Links To Other Disciplines -- Rationality, Imitation, And Tradition -- Simple Models Of Complex Phenomena: The Case Of Cultural Evolution -- Memes: Universal Acid Or A Better Mousetrap? Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.