CHAPTER EIGHT. Cultural Evolution: Adaptive Diversification in Language and Religion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. CHAPTER ONE. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER TWO. Evolutionary Branching in a Classical Model for Sympatric Speciation 9
6. CHAPTER THREE. Adaptive Diversification Due to Resource Competition in Asexual Models 38
7. CHAPTER FOUR. Adaptive Diversification Due to Resource Competition in Sexual Models 74
8. CHAPTER FIVE. Adaptive Diversification Due to Predator-Prey Interactions 113
9. CHAPTER SIX. Adaptive Diversification Due to Cooperative Interactions 139
10. CHAPTER SEVEN. More Examples: Adaptive Diversification in Dispersal Rates, the Evolution of Anisogamy, and the Evolution of Trophic Preference 163
11. CHAPTER EIGHT. Cultural Evolution: Adaptive Diversification in Language and Religion 195
12. CHAPTER NINE. Adaptive Diversification and Speciation as Pattern Formation in Partial Differential Equation Models 217
13. CHAPTER TEN. Experimental Evolution of Adaptive Diversification in Microbes 262
14. APPENDIX. Basic Concepts in Adaptive Dynamics 279
15. Bibliography 306
16. Index 323