Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic

This volume is motivated by the desire to explain why Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of cultural differences between the two (sub-)species. It provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural evolution as is being used by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, and...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mesoudi, Alex. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Aoki, Kenichi. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55363-2
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Experimental Studies of Cumulative Culture in Modern Humans: What are the Requirements of the Ratchet -- Factors Limiting the Number of Independent Cultural Traits That Can Be Maintained in a Population -- Inferring Learning Strategies from Cultural Frequency Data -- The Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans and the Diversity in Cultural Transition Patterns: a Theoretical Perspective -- Simulating Geographical Variation in Material Culture: Were Early Modern Humans in Europe Ethnically Structured? -- “Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ‘Model Organism’ -- Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model -- Evolution of Culturally Transmitted Teaching Behavior -- Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic -- Mobility and Cultural Diversity in Central-Place Foragers: Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Behavior. 
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